cleaning up torrents from transmission-daemon

gistfile1.txt

#!/bin/bash

#set username and password for authentication
user=transmission
password=transmission
host=127.0.0.1
port=9091

# get the list of 100% Done and Stopped or Finished torrents. the last sed command removes the * from a torrent id that indicates an error.
list=$(transmission-remote $host:$port --auth=$user:$password  --list |  sed -e '1d;$d;s/^ *//' | grep -e '100%.*Done.*\(Stopped\|Finished\)' |  cut --only-delimited --delimiter=' '  --field=1 | sed 's/*//')
logger -p cron.info "removing finished torrents: "$list
for i in $list ; do
        logger -p cron.info  "removing finished torrent with id: $i";
	#remove torrent, keep files
        transmission-remote --auth=$user:$password --torrent $i --remove
        logger -p cron.info "torrent $i removed"
 done;


# get the list of Failed torrents, OR those with an error (assume it's non recoverable).
# an error in the output means
list=$(transmission-remote $host:$port --auth=$user:$password  --list |  sed -e '1d;$d;s/^ *//' | grep -e '\([[:space:]]+Failed[[:space:]]+\|^[[:space:]]*[[:digit:]]*\*.*Stopped\)' |  cut --only-delimited --delimiter=' '  --field=1 | sed 's/*//')
logger -p cron.info "removing failed torrents: "$list
for i in $list ; do
        logger -p cron.info  "removing failed torrent and files with id: $i";
        transmission-remote --auth=$user:$password --torrent $i --remove-and-delete
        logger -p cron.info "torrent $i removed with files"
 done;