add an implicit "-t" option when adding torrents from transmission-remote

[Pawessum16]

When adding a torrent for seeding to the transmission-daemon through transmission-remote, transmission-remote spits out the error "No torrent specified! Please use the -t option first." to the command line when it should be ignored that there is no -t option because it is irrelevant when the added torrent is obviously the active one.

Here's the command:
transmission-remote -a /path/to/torrent/file --find /path/to/data/directory -v

Output:
No torrent specified! Please use the -t option first.
​http://localhost:9091/transmission/rpc/ responded: "success"
​http://localhost:9091/transmission/rpc/ responded: "success"

In this command, it would be logical to think of the specified torrent as the one being added, which the daemon does recognize as and the command flawlessly runs, but the remote does not congruently recognize the same.

[envoy510]

This feature is killing me. How do I add a torrent with transmission-remote without getting that error? AFAICT, I can't use -t like it's telling me because it's a chicken and egg situation. There is no torrent id to give -t, because the torrent hasn't been added yet.

[x190]

Did you try -t all or -t torrent-hash?

-t --torrent all | id | torrent-hash Set the current torrent(s) for use by subsequent options. all will apply following requests to all torrents, while specific torrents can be chosen by id or hash. To set more than one current torrent, join their ids together in a list, such as "-t2,4,6-8" to operate on the torrents whose IDs are 2, 4, 6, 7, and 8.

[envoy510]

Replying to x190:

Did you try -t all or -t torrent-hash?

-t --torrent all | id | torrent-hash Set the current torrent(s) for use by subsequent options. all will apply following requests to all torrents, while specific torrents can be chosen by id or hash. To set more than one current torrent, join their ids together in a list, such as "-t2,4,6-8" to operate on the torrents whose IDs are 2, 4, 6, 7, and 8.

I didn't try -t all, but -t torrent-hash makes no sense since I haven't added the torrent yet. The idea of looking up a random torrent-hash is just a gross workaround. What if there are no torrents being downloaded and I want to add a new one (via transmission-remote)?

I will try adding -t all. If that works, even when there are no torrents, that might be an acceptable workaround.

[envoy510]

OK, it appears that -t all is a good workaround. Hopefully others finding this will be helped by this added info on this ticket.

Thanks.

[x190]

I was wondering if -t 0 might work as well...

[envoy510]

Yep, -t 0 worked, too. Any reason to prefer this over -t all?

[x190]

Replying to envoy510:

Yep, -t 0 worked, too. Any reason to prefer this over -t all?

Yes, if you had other torrents running and wanted different options for only the added torrent.