Command-line tool for a single download of a torrent (like wget or curl)

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I'm interested in a single command that would download the contents of a torrent (and perhaps participate as a seed following the download, until I stop it).

Usually, there is a torrent-client daemon which should be started separately beforehand, and a client to control (like transmission-remote).

But I'm looking for the simplicity of wget or curl: give one command, get the result after a while.

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Check out transmission-cli. The usage is as simple as running transmission-cli <torrent-file>, but you can obviously tune it to your needs with several options.

Just a side comment:

Actually you could use many other options, apart from transmission-cli and there will probably appear many other suggestions here (like deluge by Benjamin B. in the comments). I've read somewhere that any well-behaved program should be written so that it can be controlled via command line and the GUI is only an addition to that -- an interface to make the program easier or more convenient to use.

curl

   --limit-rate <speed>
          Specify the maximum transfer rate you want curl to use. 
           This feature is useful  if you  have a limited pipe and 
           you'd like your transfer not to use your entire bandwidth.

          The given speed is measured in bytes/second, unless a suffix 
          is appended.  Appending  'k'  or 'K' will count the number
          as kilobytes, 'm' or M' makes it megabytes, while 'g' or 'G' 
          makes it gigabytes. Examples: 200K, 3m and 1G.

E.g: curl --limit-rate 423K

wget

   --limit-rate=amount
       Limit the download speed to amount bytes per second.  Amount may
       be expressed in bytes, kilobytes with the k suffix, or 
       megabytes with the m suffix.  For example, --limit-rate=20k will limit 
       the retrieval rate to 20KB/s.  This is useful when, for
       whatever reason, you don't want Wget to consume 
       the entire available bandwidth.

E.g: wget --limit-rate=423k

Command tool to create torrent files that includes MD5 hashes of files

You can use this one: https://py3createtorrent.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

But you need to have python installed for this one .

"py3createtorrent is a comprehensive shell/commandline utility for creating torrents (Linux & Windows). It's a GPL-licensed Python v3.1 script. I tested it with Ubuntu 8.04 / rTorrent and Windows 7 / µTorrent."

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