On 6/23/20 3:14 PM, Perry Smith wrote:
I’d really appreciate if you could give a few examples of this.
Here's a different example of how I used a global (-g) alias: % alias -g PTBONE="-R 127.0.0.1:3128:127.0.0.1:3128" % ssh PTBONE host.example.netPTBONE is an alias that has the long string of options substituted in it's place.
I chose a global alias because I rarely wanted the PTBONE configuration on my ssh connections. But I wanted it often enough that typing out the full thing was a PITA. I felt like adding PTBONE /when/ I wanted it was a reasonable compromise.
Backstory: I was periodically updating a bunch of Red Hat systems that were configured to use a proxy on localhost (127.0.0.1 to avoid ::1 confusion). Said proxy was created by OpenSSH's remote port forwarding back to a local (caching) proxy like Squid. PTBONE is short for Proxy Trombone, as a reference / nod to what the traffic does.
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