How to terminate transmission-cli

ruby linux bitcoin transmission torrent
Pradeep Gupta picture Pradeep Gupta · Aug 18, 2014 · Viewed 8.2k times · Source

I am using ruby script to download bitcoin bootstrap.dat file, This file can only be downloaded by using torrent client so to download on command line i am using following ruby demo script:

#!/usr/bin/ruby env
`transmission-cli https://bitcoin.org/bin/blockchain/bootstrap.dat.torrent`

Now i run that script

root@master:~# ruby demo

But that script hangs because above transmission downloads torrents file perfectly but after that it start to seeding and uploading and never terminate automatically, Is there any way i can terminate this using my script?

Is there any way by which i can send kill or termination signal after torrent download finished?

Answer

enrico.bacis picture enrico.bacis · Aug 20, 2014

You can use the -f, -finish <script> which executes a script when the download is completed:

tmpfile=$(mktemp)
chmod a+x $tmpfile
echo "killall transmission-cli" > $tmpfile
transmission-cli -f $tmpfile your.torrent

You could also use rtorrent which has more options.

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