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I'm using mktorrent, but I'm having problems with it since it doesn't hash the files in the directory for some weird reason...

I'm looking for a replacement specifically for command line

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Never done it myself so commenting rather than answering, most notable torrent client have this feature on gui section and some of them have command line interface. You may give a shot at transmission-cli or qbittorrent-nox or deluge-console or rtorrent. – sagarchalise Mar 25 '11 at 21:02
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rtorrent doesn't have torrent creation sadly (the one I use) i'll check out the others – allenskd Mar 25 '11 at 22:21
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rtorrent doesn't and won't have creation feature as developer says here: libtorrent.rakshasa.no/ticket/656 – Pedram Mar 25 '11 at 22:29
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How about ctorrent?

sudo apt-get install ctorrent
ctorrent -t -u "http://tracker.example.com:6969/announce" -s example.torrent file_or_dir_to_upload

It's also a very good client.

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for some reason the torrent would not seed. – chovy Dec 21 '12 at 8:54
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Transmission can do it:

$ ./transmission-create --help
Usage: transmission-create [options] <file|directory>

Options:

 -h --help              Display this help page and exit
 -p --private           Allow this torrent to only be used with the specified tracker(s)
 -o --outfile <file>    Save the generated .torrent to this filename
 -c --comment <comment> Add a comment
 -t --tracker <url>     Add a tracker's announce URL
 -V --version           Show version number and exit

an example could be:

transmission-create -o /var/lib/transmission-daemon/downloads/files.torrent -c "My comments" -t udp://tracker.openbittorrent.com:80 ~/torrent/complete/my_file_or_directory_to_share.extension

you can find more documentation here

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Note that transmission seems unable to create a Torrent file with Webseeds. – Frederick Nord Jun 27 '17 at 7:24
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Transmission (in Ubuntu Desktop, transmission-gtk is the default bittorrent client) can also be used to create torrents. On the command-line, transmissioncli (installed by the transmission-cli package) can be used to create torrents. transmissioncli --help should tell you what options you need to use.

In 2.1x and later versions of transmission, that part has been split out from transmissioncli (since it's been deprecated for a while now, in favor of transmission-daemon) into transmission-create, -show and -edit. Ubuntu 11.04 will ship with version 2.13 of transmission. For all supported releases of Ubuntu, you can get the latest stable version of transmission from Transmission's official PPA at https://edge.launchpad.net/~transmissionbt/+archive/ppa.

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Buildtorrent 

sudo apt-get install buildtorrent

From synaptic:

Description: command line torrent creation program

buildtorrent is a torrent file creation program. Given an announce url and an input file or directory, buildtorrent generates an output .torrent file that can be used by torrent clients.

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py3createtorrent

Description:

Create torrents via command line!

py3createtorrent is a comprehensive shell/commandline utility for creating torrents (Linux & Windows). It's a GPL-licensed Python v3.1 script.

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Your link 404s :( – Frederick Nord Jun 27 '17 at 7:24
    
@FrederickNord I updated the link. – robert Jun 27 '17 at 11:14
    
FTR: It seems to be unable to create a Torrent file with Webseeds – Frederick Nord Jun 27 '17 at 11:20

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