BTINFO(1)

📦 version 0.16, in ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu resolute

💖 BTINFO — the tea on your torrents 💖

okay bestie, so btinfo is literally the BitTorrent Protocol Daemon's little info-gossip bestie ✨ it pulls up the deets on a torrent file and reads them to you like it's spilling everything it knows. no cap, that's the whole job. it's in the User Commands section of the manual, and yes, she's iconic for it. 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

btinfo file

that's it. you hand her one file and she goes off. one file, one vibe check, one moment of main character energy. 🫶

✨ EXAMPLE ✨

say you wanna list the torrent information for osol-0906-x86.iso.torrent. you'd do this:

$ btinfo /var/torrents/osol-0906-x86.iso.torrent
Name: osol-0906-x86.iso
Info hash: 58aca632a9f68427a8ac8f58cafa7a72ca067dba
Tracker URLs: [ [ http://dlc.sun.com:6969/announce ] [ http://dlc.sun.com:16969/announce ] ]
Number of pieces: 1354
Piece size: 524288
Total size: 709871616
Number of files: 1
Files:
osol-0906-x86.iso (709871616)

look at her. name, info hash, tracker URLs, number of pieces, piece size, total size, number of files, and the file list itself. absolutely ate, no crumbs left. 😭💖

🔍 TROUBLESHOOTING 🔍

if btpd has shut down for some unknown reason (rude of it, honestly), go peek at the logfile for possible clues. it's giving detective era. 🕵️‍♀️✨

💀 BUGS 💀

known bugs are listed right here, bestie:

http://github.com/queueRAM/btpd/issues

and before you hit submit on that bug report, pls pls verify that you are running the latest version of btpd. we're not doing duplicate reports today, it's not the vibe. 🙈

👑 AUTHORS 👑

current maintainers:

  • Marq Schneider <queueRAM@gmail.com>

past contributors:

  • Richard Nyberg <btpd@murmeldjur.se>

legends, both of them. bow down. 🎀

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

and that's the whole page, babes 💜 this lil' gem lives in the BitTorrent Protocol Daemon manual, version 0.16, dated 2010-07-31 — a whole vintage icon, and honestly? still serving. periodt. 🌈⭐🍓

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