I tried the torrent found here: http://isohunt.com/download/138556137/ubuntu.torrent and was unable to replicate this problem. (note: it saves to file name "[isoHunt] ubuntu-9.10-desktop-i386.iso.torrent")
Perhaps you are entering the file name incorrectly? Keep in mind when accessing files with spaces, either the spaces need to be escaped with a backslash, or the whole file name put in double quotes. For example with the torrent file I used above you'd need one of the following commands for it to work: [lftp] :~> torrent [isoHunt]\ ubuntu-9.10-desktop-i386.iso.torrent or [lftp] :~> torrent "[isoHunt] ubuntu-9.10-desktop-i386.iso.torrent" If you don't do this you'll get the following error: torrent: Too many arguments. Try `help torrent' for more information. Is this what happened to you? You simply said it refused to start. In what way did it refuse? What output, if any, did lftp show? - Kyle On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 6:03 AM, Chris Sutcliffe <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12/21/09 3:10 AM, Alexander V. Lukyanov wrote: >> >> On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 07:18:36PM -0500, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: >> >>> >>> Is anybody able to get torrents the contain spaces in the filename to >>> work? Torrents with spaces simply refuse to start, whereas torrents >>> without spaces work fine. >>> >> >> Can you provide a sample of such a torrent file? >> >> > > Pretty much any torrent I find on isohunt (for example) exhibits this > behaviour. > > Chris > > -- > Chris Sutcliffe > [email protected] > >
