.TH MKTORRENT "1" "September 2018" "mktorrent 1.1" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
mktorrent \- simple BitTorrent metainfo file creator
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B mktorrent
[\fI\,OPTIONS\/\fR] \fI\,<target directory or filename>\/\fR
.SH DESCRIPTION
mktorrent is a command line utility to create BitTorrent metainfo files
used by trackers and torrent clients. It can create metainfo files for
single files or complete directories in a fast way.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
\fB\-a\fR, \fB\-\-announce=\fR<url>[,<url>...]
Specify the full announce URLs.
Additional \fB\-a\fR adds backup trackers.
.TP
\fB\-c\fR, \fB\-\-comment=\fR<comment>
Add a comment to the metainfo.
.TP
\fB\-d\fR, \fB\-\-no\-date\fR
Don't write the creation date.
.TP
\fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR
Show this help screen.
.TP
\fB\-l\fR, \fB\-\-piece\-length=\fR<n>
Set the piece length to 2^n bytes.
Default is 18, that is 2^18 = 256kB.
.TP
\fB\-n\fR, \fB\-\-name=\fR<name>
Set the name of the torrent.
Default is the basename of the target.
.TP
\fB\-o\fR, \fB\-\-output=\fR<filename>
Set the path and filename of the created file.
Default is <name>.torrent.
.TP
\fB\-p\fR, \fB\-\-private\fR
Set the private flag.
.TP
\fB\-s\fR, \fB\-\-source=\fR<source>
Add source string embedded in infohash.
.TP
\fB\-t\fR, \fB\-\-threads=\fR<n>
Use <n> threads for calculating hashes.
Default is the number of CPU cores.
.TP
\fB\-v\fR, \fB\-\-verbose\fR
Be verbose.
.TP
\fB\-w\fR, \fB\-\-web\-seed=\fR<url>[,<url>...]
Add web seed URLs.
Additional \fB\-w\fR adds more URLs.
.SH "AUTHORS"
Written by Emil Renner Berthing <esmil@mailme.dk>.
As of May 2016 the upstream maintainer is Kai Nilsen <mktorrent@rudde.org>.
.PP
This manpage was written for the Debian mktorrent package by
Paride Legovini <pl@ninthfloor.org> and Nico Golde <nion@debian.org>.
.SH "REPORTING BUGS"
Please send bug reports, patches, feature requests, praise and
general gossip about the program to: <mktorrent@rudde.org>.
.SH "COPYRIGHT"
.PP
This program is Free Software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any
later version.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
More documentation at: <https://github.com/Rudde/mktorrent/wiki>.