Most people probably already know ranger and vim. If you like those, stig is a fantastic frontend for the Transmission bittorrent client. Has both tui and cli.

Most people probably already know ranger and vim. If you like those, stig is a fantastic frontend for the Transmission bittorrent client. Has both tui and cli. I mostly use the tui, but sometimes cli is useful for e.g. `sleep 15m && stig start stopped`. The tui controls are quite intuitive if you know vim, and a lot of them are basically abbreviations, like ts for torrent start/stop, tm for torrent move (setting path), tn for torrent name (rename top level dir/file of the torrent), td for torrent delete. The command mode in the tui is also quite flexible. You use :add to add a torrent by url or file path, and you can specify -s to add in stopped state and -p to specify the path for all those torrents, but those args can go before or after the torrents. Depending if I have the path or torrent on my clipboard first I'll write out the command differently. Often I use primary selection to grab a torrent url from my IRC client and then my clipboard manager of sorts to slap a path on my clipboard and paste both in quick succession. I keep it running in tmux on my server and can add torrents from my phone or PC over ssh. It can connect to remote Transmission sessions, but my distro doesn't package it so I just run it on the same server as Transmission. In the past I used other frontends for Transmission and Deluge, but none are nearly as good as stig.