HOWTO: run vuze from console

The bittorrent client vuze (formerly known as azureus) supports a console frontend, so you can manage your torrents in headless mode.

Install vuze from azureus.sourceforge.net

Start it with gui and configure your vuze-settings, download-folder, ports and so on.

If you start vuze with command-line option -ui=console, vuze runs in console. To use the same config as you configured in the gui, you

have to do following:

create a shell script in your home directory:

vuze-console:

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#!/bin/sh

cd /Applications/Vuze.app/Contents/Resources/Java

java -Dazureus.config.path=/Users/YOUR_USER-NAME/Library/Application Support/Vuze -jar Azureus2.jar -ui=console

The go in screen and run ./vuze-console

A few exceptions of unfound plugins could be occure, 

but you can ignore them.

short keymap:

a URL     - add torrent

sh t         - show all torrents

sh t c      - show all complete torrents

m #        - move torrent on top of queue

r #          - remove torrent (# = torrent number)

help       - more help