Thread: Need help making a script for mktorrent please? (Linux)

Hi Folks!

I'm going to try and keep this simple..

I have a folder full of more folders what I want to make torrents for.

I want to make a script that makes a seperate torrent for each folder but I don't know how to do it.



At the moment I have an alias added to the .bash_alias file

alias wtmk='mktorrent -a http://tracker.what.cd:34000/secretg...egook/announce -p'

Which saves some time but it would be cool if I could apply the mktorrent command to all the folders in the current directory or whatever.

I am pretty sure this is quite easy to do? Ideally a bash script but mabye a python script or something but if someone could show me how or just give me an example script it would be insanely useful to me and then I could apply it to other commands too..

a simple one:

cd your torrent folder
for i in `ls`;do wtmk $i;done

Originally Posted by securecrt

a simple one:

cd your torrent folder
for i in `ls`;do wtmk $i;done

Thanks for your response! It doesn't quite work yet as all my folder names have spaces in them so it tries to do the command on all parts of the folder name seperately. Could you please tell me which bit of the command to enclose in quotes to get this command to work please?

For example if I have a folder in there called: Album - Name (V0) it would try to do the command on "Album", "-", "Name" and "V0"!

I have tried:

for i in `ls`;do wtmk "$i";done

but it does the same thing..

Easy to fix?

for i in *;do wtmk "$i";done