SOCKS Proxied SSH

.bash_profile.sh

# append the following to bash profile 

# ~/.bash_profile or #~/.bashrc

export PATH="$PATH:~/bin"

ssh-socks.sh

#!/bin/sh

# ~/bin/ssh-socks

# USAGE: ssh-proxy USERNAME@HOST
#      : ssh-proxy -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.private_key USERNAME@HOST

curl -sSf --socks5-hostname localhost:5678 www.google.com > /dev/null || status=$?

if [[ $status -ne 0 ]]; then
    echo "No SOCKs proxy is open on port 5678. Open it first!"
    echo "You can open a SOCKs proxy with SSH using:"
    echo "    ssh -D 5678 USERNAME@HOST"
    exit 1
fi

ssh -o ProxyCommand='nc -x localhost:5678 %h %p' $@