screen and rtorrent

rtorrent is a command line torrent client. 'rtorrent torrent_file' will download the file. You can use screen command if you need to download remotely.

rtorrent short cuts
* Control-q : closes rTorrent, done twice makes the program shutdown without waiting to send stopping information to the trackers.
* Left arrow : returns to the previous screen.
* Right arrow : goes to the next screen.
* a|s|d : increase global upload throttle about 1|5|50 KB/s
* A|S|D : increase global download throttle about 1|5|50 KB/s
* z|x|c : decrease global upload throttle about 1|5|50 KB/s
* Z|X|C : decrease global download throttle about 1|5|50 KB/s
* Control-S : starts download
* Control-D : stops an active download, removes a stopped download.
* + or - : changes the download priority of selected torrent.
* Backspace : adds the specified .torrent. After pressing this button write full path or URL of .torrent file. You can use Tab and other tricks from bash.

Screen short cuts
Ctrl+a , d will detach screen
screen -r rstore the screen

found a nice blog here http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/05/02/howto-use-rtorrent-like-a-pro/