Download torrent files in the background.

transmission-daemon is a daemon-based Transmission session that can be controlled via RPC commands from transmission's web interface or transmission-remote, install the transmission-daemon: The transmission-remote is the administrative front-end for transmission-daemon that lets you add, remove, start, stop, and view your torrents, and a lot more besides.
Transmission-daemon will require a username and password for authentification! By default the username and password is "transmission" like: The command above will list current torrents,transmission-daemon configuration file is /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json , this is a portion of configuration file to limit the upload speed to 1 kb:

Using the web interface for transmission-daemon

First add the localhost to the /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json: Open the url http://127.0.0.1:9091/ in a web browser.
The transmisson-remote-gui/ is a gui client for transmission-daemon, download the client and connect with localhost on port 9091. Top

Making things easier – the watch directory

To make things easier, you can set up a watch directory; any .torrent files placed in that directory will automatically be added to transmission-daemon. To set up a watch directory, edit settings.json and add the following: when transmission-daemon is started, every .torrent file in there will be added.The torrent you want to cancel remove from the watch dir, you can put the watch dir any where even on online.

Hide the dirs path from the bash prompt.

Ubuntu terminal prompt shows the full path for the working directory, to disable this action backup your ~/.bashrc and then search through it and remove every '\w' in the line starting with PS1= like: For the root also remove the '\w' in /etc/profile and "~/.bashrc". Top

How to encrypt the folder?

Encfs mounts or creates an encrypted virtual filesystem, install the encfs: Finally you are ready to create the encrypted directory. The application encfs will create one directory which contains the encrypted files and one directory where the files are unlocked and accessible. The syntax for encfs is: encfs <path to encrypted directory> <path to visible directory>. For example, I wish to have a directory in my home directory called visible and another one called encrypted. Therefore I could write: First encfs will ask you to create the selected directories. Simply type 'y'.Then it asks which degree of encryption that should be used. I prefer to simply press enter to use default encryption-level. At last encfs will ask you for the password that is needed to reach the encrypted information.
Use the directory ~/visible to store all kinds of sensitive information,In order to close the ~/visible directory simply type: As long as the directory is closed all the information in ~/visible will seem to have disappeared. The only way to gain access to this information again is by unlocking it. This can be done in a terminal by typing: To Automatically Mounting on Startup download the gnome-encfs Python script, open the gnome-encfs directory and run the command to install: There is a gnome tray application called Cryptkeeper that allows for manual (GUI based) mounting/unmounting of directories encrypted with encfs.
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