On 10/17/06, Scott van Looy <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Today Dylan Semler did spake thusly: > Basically, I have a program that searches certain bittorrent sites for > new torrents that I usually like. When it finds one, I want it to > open a new terminal and run bittorrent-console in that terminal to > start downloading the torrent. Have you considered using one of the many bittorrent command line tools instead? I use rtorrent for grabbing stuff when I'm stuck in a terminal window, saves on the overhead of X...am guessing that'd be scriptable in a far easier way...
bittorrent-console is command line, and scripting it isn't too difficult: gnome-terminal -x bittorrent-console <torrent file>. However, that is pretty much the extent of it--there's no way to make adjustments to torrents already in progress without killing them first. I have been looking for a better command line bittorrent app so maybe I'll check out rtorrent. Thanks. -- Dylan Type faster. Use Dvorak: http://dvzine.org
