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  • You can use transmission just for creating the torrent. You don’t have to use the actual client. If qbittorrent is your client, it’s possible to add the torrents to the list at the same time with

    for folder in * ; do
      transmission-create -o "$folder.torrent" "$folder"
      qbittorrent --save-path="$folder" "$folder.torrent"
    done
    

    Then you create the torrent and start seeding it immediately. If you’ve already created the torrent files

    for torrentFile in **/*.torrent ; do
      folderName="$(basename -s .torrent "$torrentFile")"
      folderParent="$(dirname "$torrentFile")"
      folderPath="$folderName/$folderParent"
      qbittorent --save-path="$folderPath" "$torrentFile"
    done
    
    

    Depending on the setup, you could also just sym link the folder into qbittorrent’s download directory and copy your torrents into a folder that qbittorrent listens to. There are many ways to skin the cat. Check out the command line parameters for your torrent client.

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  • Hmmm, is your goal to share each season folder separately? Is that why you would need scripting?

    Or are you looking to share everything at once without worrying about creating individual torrents? If this is what you’re looking for, then maybe Retroshare is what you’re looking for? I don’t know if stuff using eDonkey, Gnutella, or Kademlia are still around, but retroshare has file-sharing similar to those where you point the client at a folder and it just shares the entire thing.

    IPFS would’ve been great for this, but they honestly screwed the pooch on that (it hogs resources, doesn’t have good clients, and doesn’t have a bridge to torrents or other networks i.e you can’t go “oh, I have a torrent file, let me see if the files for this are on IPFS and download them from there”).

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