Simple script for tunneling ports over ssh so I don't have to look up the ssh switches each time.

sshtunnel.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

showhelp=0
verbose=0

POSITIONAL=()
while [[ $# -gt 0 ]]
do
key="$1"

case $key in
    -u|--user)
    user="$2"
    shift # past argument
    shift # past value
    ;;
    -t|--target)
    target="$2"
    shift # past argument
    shift # past value
    ;;
    -p|--port)
    port="$2"
    shift # past argument
    shift # past value
    ;;
    -h|--help)
    showhelp=1
    shift # past argument
    shift # past value
    ;;
    -v|--verbose)
    verbose=1
    shift # past argument
    shift # past value
    ;;    
    *)    # unknown option
    POSITIONAL+=("$1") # save it in an array for later
    shift # past argument
    ;;
esac
done
set -- "${POSITIONAL[@]}" # restore positional parameters


if [ $showhelp -eq 1 ]; then
	echo "Cheater way of tunneling a tcp port on a remote machine to a localhost port with ssh."
	echo "The same port number is used at each end so just read the ssh man page and do it"
	echo "yourself if that doesn't work for you."
	echo ""
	echo "Usage:"
	echo "    ${0} -u username -t target -p portnumber"
	exit
fi


argstring=""
argstring+="-L $port:localhost:$port -N -C -l $user $target"

if [ $verbose -eq 1 ]; then
	echo "target: $target"
	echo "port: $port"
	echo "user: $user"
	argstring+=" -v"
fi

ssh $argstring $POSITIONAL