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download a torrent file from kickass torrent from linux cli

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this one has been bugging me for a while and I cannot find any answer. In fact I usually get google results for cli torrent clients rather than what I want. So rtorrent is notorious about crashing when fed with magnet links. So to circumvent that I want to download torrent files directly from the command line. More often than not kickass torrents provide torrents of interest (f.e. slackware dvds) but by right clicking and "copy link location" will provide a link of the sort: > https://torcache.net/torrent/85922FBEE6DCE5E2F5491E16BCDD9E6E427BA5AA.torrent?title=[kat.cr]slackware64.14.2.iso If I wget this link, I'll receive a corrupt file named > "85922FBEE6DCE5E2F5491E16BCDD9E6E427BA5AA.torrent?title\=[kat.cr]slackware64.14.2.iso" which does not load in rtorrent correctly. curl also says: > curl: (3) [globbing] error: bad range specification after pos 86 Is there another command or some argument for curl or wget that I miss and which would correctly download the file? thank you
Asked by nass (1508 rep)
Jul 20, 2016, 11:28 AM
Last activity: Nov 10, 2017, 04:13 PM