automating bit torrent

tobysaville · 05-27-2004, 06:03 PM

Without having time to learn shell scripting just yet, i was wondering if someone could help me with a script that would solve the following algorithm

I have all my bit torrent files in a folder and i want to set up a cron job to get these torrents at night. I was thinking something like the following.

Code:

for each *.torrent file in the torrent/ dir
  btdownloadcurses.py <filename>.torrent &

Thanks for your suggestions and I promise I will learn shell scripting soon!!

tobes

ziggyboy · 06-08-2004, 02:54 AM

This is pretty easy.

Code:

#!/bin/sh

TORDIR=/home/myself/torrent/

for I in `ls $TORDIR*.torrent`
do
        screen btdownloadcurses.py $I &
done

Note: YOU HAVE TO EDIT THIS SCRIPT!

Some things to remember:

1. Change TORDIR to the absolute path of your torrent directory.

2. I used screen because you used the curses version of BT. To view your downloads, type 'screen -list'. To learn how to use screen and/or use torrents under Linux, check out my guide:

http://sogono.com/carlo/linuxtorrent/

Cheers.
Carlo