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#!/bin/bash
# A little script I made that gathers the linux torrents from distrowatch and puts them in downloads

pwd
sleep 1

# Get rid of all the crap that will prevent wget from reading the file properly
mkdir TEMP
curl https://distrowatch.com/news/torrents.xml | egrep -o "https?://[^ ]+" | cut -d '<' -f 1 > /tmp/torrent_urls

# Download the torrents and move it to the watch directory
cd TEMP
wget -R *.torrent.1 -i torrent_urls
mv -i *.torrent $HOME/downloads 
ls -l $HOME/downloads/
cd ..
rm -rfv /tmp/torrent_urls

exit 0