HELICAL(1)

🦋 HELICAL 🦋

okay bestie, welcome to the helical(1) page — it lives in the General Commands Manual section, and honestly? it's giving tiny-but-mighty. 💅

✨ NAME ✨

helical — control Bittorrent client Transmission from command line

like, you're literally puppeteering your torrent client from the terminal. no cap. 👑

💖 SYNOPSIS 💖

helical [options] [[hostname][:port]] [command]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so helical is a remote control utility for the Bittorrent client Transmission. 🫶

by default, helical connects to the Transmission session at localhost:9091. wanna boss around some other session? just specify a different hostname and/or port. easy. ✨

helical operates in two modes: from command line and in interactive mode. to run helical in interactive mode, start it without a command (yes, that's the whole trick, main character energy fr fr). for the commands list, please refer to the COMMANDS section below. 👇

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -u USERNAME, --username=USERNAME — authentication username. that's it, that's the vibe.
• -p PASSWORD, --password=PASSWORD — authentication password. keep it secret, keep it safe. 🤫

🎀 COMMANDS 🎀

• add torrent-file | URL [target-dir paused=(yes|no) peer-limit=#] — add a torrent specified by torrent-file or URL to the transfer list. use target-dir as the download location for the torrent. set paused to yes or no to start or stop torrent activity respectively. add the peer-limit option to specify the maximum number of peers. 🌈
• exit, quit — exit from helical. say bye bestie 👋
• info [torrent-id, ...] — get details for a torrent. if no torrent-id is provided, all torrents are displayed. nosy but make it useful 💀
• list — list all torrent transfers. the whole roster, iconic.
• remove torrent-id [, ...] — remove one or more torrents from the transfer list.
• session get | stats — get session parameters or session statistics. pick your fighter 🥊
• start torrent-id [, ...] — start one or more queued torrent transfers.
• stop torrent-id [, ...] — stop one or more active torrent transfers.
• verify torrent-id [, ...] — verify one or more torrent transfers. trust but verify, periodt. ✅

🧚 AUTHOR 🧚

Erik Svensson — the legend, the blueprint, the origin story. 👑

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

• transmissioncli(1)
• transmission-daemon(1)
• transmission-remote(1)
• http://www.transmissionbt.com/

ok that's the whole page bestie, go forth and control your torrents, iykyk 🦋💖

this has been helical, version 0.2, dated 2009-09-04 — a certified classic that still slays. mwah. 💋