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I have a directory with a lot of .torrent files, and I want to get only the one with specific tracker(s). Is there a way to find them?

The only way I've found so far is to add them all in a bittorrent client, and look one by one in the tracker list, but it's tedious. Do you know another way, via Powershell maybe or some other software? On Unix I would have tried to grep them, but .torrent are binary so I'm not even sure it would have worked.

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  • If you don't mind, a quick-and-dirty method is to use strings on them and grep for hostnames.
    – user319088
    Mar 26, 2015 at 7:31
  • Forgive my ignorance, but do I have access to these commands on Windows? I'm quite used to them on a Unix environment, but I've almost never used command line on Windows (since DOS with Windows 95)
    – FredericS
    Mar 26, 2015 at 7:33

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Try findstr, it worse than grep, but it does work:

findstr /i /m /r /c:":announce[0-9]*:http://your\.tracker\.com" *.torrent
  • /i - Case-insensitive search
  • /m - Print only the filename if a file contains a match
  • /r - Use string as a regular expression
  • /c:"string" - Use string as a literal search string
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