command-line tool for a single download of a torrent (like wget or curl)
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.
aria2
aria2c <torrentfile or magnet link>
You can also try rtorrent and may be ctorrent which man page starts with:
ctorrent - Download bittorrent files from command line