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torify — Route network traffic through the Tor network. Note: This command has been deprecated, and is now a

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Problem

How to use the torify command: Route network traffic through the Tor network. Note: This command has been deprecated, and is now a backwards-compatible wrapper of torsocks. More information: <https://manned.org/torify>.

Solution

torify — Route network traffic through the Tor network. Note: This command has been deprecated, and is now a backwards-compatible wrapper of torsocks. More information: <https://manned.org/torify>.

Route traffic via Tor:

torify {{command}}

Toggle Tor in shell:

torify {{on|off}}

Spawn a Tor-enabled shell:

torify --shell

Check for a Tor-enabled shell:

torify show

Specify Tor configuration file:

torify -c {{config-file}} {{command}}

Use a specific Tor SOCKS proxy:

torify -P {{proxy}} {{command}}

Redirect output to a file:

torify {{command}} > {{path/to/output}}

Code Snippets

Route traffic via Tor

torify {{command}}

Toggle Tor in shell

torify {{on|off}}

Spawn a Tor-enabled shell

torify --shell

Check for a Tor-enabled shell

torify show

Specify Tor configuration file

torify -c {{config-file}} {{command}}

Context

tldr-pages: linux/torify

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