Sure no problem.
I use iSSH which is available in the app store, a bit pricy but its the only one that works with the iPad as of this writing. SSH'ing via your mac would be ideal because this whole process runs headless mode.
ctorrent - your command line bittorrent client
screen - your terminal multiplexer, this will allow you to run multiple ctorrent sessions (multi downloading of torrent files).
wget/curl - I sometimes find that I can't download torrent files using Safari Downloader so I have to grab them via these command line apps.
Assuming you have everything running.
1. Run "screen" from the command line.
You can google "screen" commands for further details but I'll give you the basic commands you'll use 95% of the time.
control-a-d
- detach session, as the name suggests detaches your current "screen" session so you can leave it running in the background - non interactive mode.
control-a-n
- switch to next screen session, in your case your other ctorrent instance downloading another file.
control-a-p
- switch to previous screen session.
control-a-c
- create a new screen session, kinda like envokes a new terminal session. use control-a-n, and control-a-p to move around "screen" sessions.
To reconnect to a de-ttached session type the following on the command line:
screen -x
- reattach to a non-attached screen session, if you only have one "screen" session running" it automatically connects to that one.
screen -r
- lists screen sessions that you have detached from, to connect to a specific screen session type "screen -r [Process ID]", where [Process ID] is a number that is associated with the screen session displayed when you type "screen -r"
2. Download your torrent files.
I don't know how you are downloading torrent files, without Safari Downloader but I generally copy the URL from Safari, then start iFile to edit a text file. Paste the URL directly into your edited text file using iFile (I find pasting to command line apps are flaky at best so this method is better).
your text file should include the whole address i.e.
myurl.txt, yes you can have more than one url address, each separated by a new line e.g:
http://filesfromhome.org/~mytorrents/torrentfile.torrent
http://filesfromhome.org/~mytorrents/torrentfile2.torrent
http://filesfromhome.org/~mytorrents/torrentfile3.torrent
http://filesfromhome.org/~mytorrents/torrentfile4.torrent
now we use wget (or curl if you prefer, I'm more comfortable with wget so I'll use that for this example) to process the myurl.txt file.
to use wget type the following:
wget -c -t 0 -T 90 -i myurl.txt
the flags used for wget are:
-c : continue flag, resume downloaded file where possible
-t 0 : retry indefinitely, if set to x, will retry x-amount of time until it gives up
-T 90 : timeout of 90 seconds, no data received in x seconds, will retry again
-i [filename] : use urls listed in filename.
As you can see you can use wget as remote downloading tool when you have something you want to download directly on your ipad but may high chance of being aborted. I.e. you can use it to download large files and it can be resumed.
3. now we run ctorrent
with torrent files downloaded. run ctorrent with the torrent file name as its parameter. Note there are a lot of settings you can change (just like the gui version), i.e. max throughput caps, number of peers to connect to, etc, type "H" while in ctorrent to get more info.
i.e. "ctorrent myfirsttorrentfile.torrent"
you can google more about ctorrent stats (they're kinda cryptic to understand), and I can't remember from the top of my head what the letters/numbers mean.
now type "control-a-c" to create a new screen session.
type "ctorrent mysecondtorrentfile.torrent" to start another download
now type "control-a-n" or "control-a-p" to switch between the two processes in screen.
repeat as necessary. enjoy downloading torrents on your iPad.
