transmission-show(1)

transmission-show1

Command-line utility to show .torrent file metadata

Usage

transmission-show [-h] [-m] [-s] [torrentfile]

Overview

transmission-show shows BitTorrent .torrent file metadata

Options

-h --help

Show a short help page and exit.

-m --magnet

Show a magnet link for the specified .torrent file

-s --scrape

Ask the torrent's trackers how many peers are in the torrent's swarm

Releases

8 releases since Debian 7 (Wheezy); the text changed 3 times.

  1. 7
  2. 8–9
  3. 10
  4. 11–Arch

--magnet since Debian 8 (Jessie); -m since Debian 8 (Jessie).

Authors

Charles Kerr and Mike Gelfand.

From transmission-cli 4.1.4-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.