Silas Sewell - December 2007 http://www.silassewell.com/blog/2007/12 Infrastructure Development Sat, 21 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.silassewell.com/ en hourly 1 Simple Shell Script to Manage SSH Tunnels http://www.silassewell.com/blog/2007/12/15/simple-shell-script-manage-ssh-tunnels/ Sat, 15 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT silas http://www.silassewell.com/blog/2007/12/15/simple-shell-script-manage-ssh-tunnels/ Manage SSH Tunnel is a simple shell script to start and stop ssh tunnels from the terminal.

Setup

Note: the setup assumes bash as the default shell

  1. Download tunnel.sh and save it to ~/bin/

  2. Add to ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bashrc

    alias tunnel_home='/bin/sh ~/bin/tunnel.sh example.net sam 22 8888'

  3. Replace example.net with the hostname of the server, sam with the username on the server, and 8888 with the local tunnel port

  4. Type source ~/.bash_profile or source ~/.bashrc

Usage

  1. To open the tunnel

    tunnel_home start

  2. To close the tunnel

    tunnel_home close
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