---
name: "btdownloadcurses.bittornado"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "bittornado"
version: "0.3.18-10.3"
release: "Debian 10 (Buster)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/btdownloadcurses.bittornado"
---

# btdownloadcurses.bittornado(1)

curses bittornado download interface

## NAME

btdownloadcurses — curses bittornado download interface

## SYNOPSIS

**btdownloadcurses** \[**options** ...\]  *URL*

**btdownloadcurses** \[**options** ...\]  *filename*

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the  **btdownloadcurses** command.

This manual page was written for the **Debian** distribution  because the original program does not have a manual page.

**btdownloadcurses** is a curses interface to download torrents.

**btdownloadcurses** will open a provided torrent *URL* or  *file* and download it until complete. It will then seed (upload) the torrent until it is stopped.

## OPTIONS

This program uses the same common options as the other bittorrent downloaders, which are documented in  **bittorrent-downloader(1)**.

## SEE ALSO

**bittorrent-downloader(1)**,  **btdownloadgui(1)**,  **btdownloadheadless(1)**.

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Cameron Dale \<camrdale@gmail.com\> (based on the original man pages written by Micah Anderson \<micah@debian.org\>) for  the **Debian** system (but may be used by others).  Permission is  granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under  the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 or any  later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public  License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.