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 Visit https://transmissionbt.com/ for more information.
 
+## Command line interface notes
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+Transmission is fully supported in transmission-remote, the preferred cli client.
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+Three standalone tools to examine, create, and edit .torrent files exist: transmission-show, transmission-create, and transmission-edit, respectively.
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+Prior to development of transmission-remote, the standalone client transmission-cli was created. Limited to a single torrent at a time, transmission-cli is deprecated and exists primarily to support older hardware dependent upon it. In almost all instances, transmission-remote should be used instead.
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+Different distributions may choose to package any or all of these tools in one or more separate packages.
+
 ## Building
 
 Transmission has an Xcode project file (Transmission.xcodeproj) for building in Xcode.