If you’re one of our regular readers, you’ll remember reading the article and script I wrote on automating BitTorrent downloads with TorrentFlux and rsync. The script has come to be quite handy to me, but the process of writing it is much more fun and appealing. Here’s how I did it.

What you’re about to read is a short, true story that details how I went from idea to solution, using the “UNIX way” (divide a problem in little pieces, then jump each hurdle with the help of a domain-specific solution, and finally combine each response).

The story is — honest! — more about the underlying thought process than the technology I used — in fact, while I do know Python and I’ve grown white hairs using Linux, most of the stuff you’ll see here I taught myself in the course of this challenge.

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