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# intermodal: a 40' shipping container for the Internet
[![Crate](https://img.shields.io/crates/v/imdl.svg)](https://crates.io/crates/imdl)
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Intermodal is a user-friendly and featureful command-line BitTorrent metainfo utility. The binary is called `imdl` and runs on Linux, Windows, and macOS.
At the moment, creation, viewing, and verification of `.torrent` files is supported.
For more about the project and its goals, check out [this post](https://rodarmor.com/blog/intermodal).
![demonstration animation](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/casey/intermodal/master/www/demo.gif)
## Manual
- [General](#general)
- [Installation](#installation)
- [Supported Operating Systems](#supported-operating-systems)
- [Pre-built binaries](#pre-built-binaries)
- [Cargo](#cargo)
- [Shell Completion Scripts](#shell-completion-scripts)
- [Semantic Versioning](#semantic-versioning)
- [Unstable Features](#unstable-features)
- [Source Signatures](#source-signatures)
- [Acknowledgments](#acknowledgments)
## General
### Installation
#### Supported Operating Systems
`imdl` supports both unix and Windows. It is tested on Linux, MacOS, and
Windows, but should work on other unix OSs. If it does not, please open an
issue!
#### Pre-built binaries
Pre-built binaries for Linux, macOS, and Windows can be found on
[the releases page](https://github.com/casey/intermodal/releases).
You can use the following command to download the latest binary for Linux,
MacOS or Windows, just replace `DEST` with the directory where you'd like to
install the `imdl` binary:
```sh
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://imdl.io/install.sh | bash -s -- --to DEST
```
#### Cargo
`imdl` is written in [Rust](https://www.rust-lang.org/) and can be built from
source and installed with `cargo install imdl`. To get Rust, use the
[rustup installer](https://rustup.rs/).
### Shell Completion Scripts
Shell completion scripts for Bash, Zsh, Fish, PowerShell, and Elvish are
available in the [completions](completions directory). Please refer to your
shell's documentation for how to install them.
The `imdl` binary can also generate the same completion scripts at runtime,
using the `completions` command:
```sh
$ imdl completions --shell bash > imdl.bash
```
### Semantic Versioning
Intermodal follows [semantic versioning](https://semver.org/).
In particular:
- v0.0.X: Breaking changes may be introduced at any time.
- v0.X.Y: Breaking changes may only be introduced with a minor version number
bump.
- vX.Y.Z: Breaking changes may only be introduced with a major version number
bump
### Unstable Features
To avoid premature stabilization and excessive version churn, unstable features
are unavailable unless the `--unstable` / `-u` flag is passed, for example
`imdl --unstable torrent create .`. Unstable features may be changed or removed
at any time.
### Source Signatures
All commits to the intermodal master branch signed with Casey Rodarmor's PGP
key with fingerprint `3259DAEDB29636B0E2025A70556186B153EC6FE0`, which can be
found
[on keybase](https://keybase.io/rodarmor/pgp_keys.asc?fingerprint=3259daedb29636b0e2025a70556186b153ec6fe0) and on
[his homepage](https://rodarmor.com/static/rodarmor.pgp).
## Acknowledgments
The formatting of `imdl torrent show` is entirely copied from
[torf](https://github.com/rndusr/torf-cli), an excellent command-line torrent
creator, editor, and viewer.