[ale] Creating and Verifying Torrent Files?

[Lightner, Jeff]

The "strings" command run against a file (including binaries) will show
any text it contains.   Not sure if that would give you enough to do the
validation you seek though.

 

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Marc
Ferguson
Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 12:10 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: [ale] Creating and Verifying Torrent Files?

 

Hey Fellas,

I'm trying to create a torrent file via CLI, but I'm stuck after
creating the file. I want to verify that it created the file correctly,
but I don't want to verify by uploading the file to my public server,
use another torrent client, etc. Is there a way I can read the .torrent
file via CLI? I tried using "less" and "nano", but it told me it's a
binary file so it's all gobbly goop.

I used transmission-create. Thanks for any help.

I posted this same question on Fedora's Forum:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1469454#post1469454

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