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
Last activity: Nov 10, 2017, 04:13 PM