[ale] Creating and Verifying Torrent Files?

[Marc Ferguson]

On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Lightner, Jeff <JLightner at water.com> wrote:

>   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?
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>
> 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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Thanks for the suggestion, Jeff. I tried using _string_, but I couldn't
totally figure it out. I thought about it some more and lo and behold
there's a _transmission-show_ command that does exactly what I'm looking
for.

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*Marc Ferguson*

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