Re: [Hampshire] Cron script spawning too many programs?

On 04/03/2009, Steve Kemp <steve@???> wrote:
> Solution? Make sure that you only start once for each file. Maybe
> something like this:
>

Or use a different tool.

rtorrent *.torrent

will open one copy of rtorrent rather than having multiple copies of a
bittorrent client running

There used to be btdownloadmanycurses which does much the same, but I
don't know what happened to that.

Cheers,
Al.