---
name: "metalink"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "metalink"
version: "0.3.6-2+b1"
release: "Debian 7 (Wheezy)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/metalink"
---

# metalink(1)

commandline metalink generator

## NAME

metalink — commandline metalink generator

## SYNOPSIS

**metalink** \[*input files\]  \[ \< mirror list\]*

## DESCRIPTION

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

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

**metalink** allows you to generate metalinks from a list  of mirrors and a collection of files. The files are hashed and the resulting  metalink is generated on the stdout.

## OPTIONS

These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax,  with long options starting with two dashes (\`-').  A summary of  options is included below.

- **-h** **--help**

  Produce a help message

- **--version**

  Print out the name and version.

- **--md5**

  Generate metalink from md5sum file(s).

- **--addpath path**

  Append a path to the mirrors ('/' is not checked)

- **--headerfile arg**

  Include file after the root element declaration.

- **--nomirrors**

  Don't read mirrors from stdin

- **--hashlist**

  List hashes only (implies nomirrors)

- **--desc arg**

  Add metalink description

- **-d arg**

  Include given digest

- **--mindigests**

  Include: md5 sha1

- **--somedigests**

  Include: md5 sha1 ed2k

- **--alldigests**

  Include all possible digests

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  Supported algorithms are (-d options):  md4 md5 sha1 sha256 sha384 sha512 rmd160 tiger crc32 ed2k gnunet sha1pieces

Mirror lists are single line definitions according to:  \[location \[preference\] \[type\] % \] mirror base url

## EXAMPLES

http://example.com/ as a mirror:  echo http://example.com \| metalink -d md5 -d sha1 \*

http://example.com/ as a mirror with preference and location:  echo us 10 % http://example.com \| metalink -d md5 -d sha1 \*

http://example.com/ as a mirror with preference only:  echo 0 10 % http://example.com \| metalink -d md5 \*

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by A. Bram Neijt bneijt@gmail.com 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 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.