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METALINK(1) | General Commands Manual | METALINK(1) |
NAME¶
metalink — commandline metalink generatorSYNOPSIS¶
metalink [input files] [ < mirror list ]DESCRIPTION¶
This manual page documents briefly the metalink command. This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. metalink allows you to generate metalinks from a list of mirrors and a collection of files. The files are hashed and the resulting metalink is generated on the stdout.OPTIONS¶
These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below.- -h --help
- Produce a help message
- --version
- Print out the name and version.
- --md5
- Generate metalink from md5sum file(s).
- --addpath path
- Append a path to the mirrors ('/' is not checked)
- --headerfile arg
- Include file after the root element declaration.
- --nomirrors
- Don't read mirrors from stdin
- --hashlist
- List hashes only (implies nomirrors)
- --desc arg
- Add metalink description
- -d arg
- Include given digest
- --mindigests
- Include: md5 sha1
- --somedigests
- Include: md5 sha1 ed2k
- --alldigests
- Include all possible digests