Lil Nas X totally sounds like it would be a valid answer here.
Get an old optiplex SFF off Craigslist for $200 and be done with it. Those things last so long, and since it’s commodity hardware you can replace individual components that break for not much money.
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They found it suspicious that we hadn’t fully booked our accommodations for the entire five weeks in Hawaii
Fuckin seriously? We all know what backpacking is. I’ve never pre-booked an entire stay when traveling internationally except when it’s for work.
set -x configures the running process, your shell. This is a posix standard flag. See https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html
there has to be a hook somewhere for every command that executes
Why do think this? I’m not aware of any shells that have such a feature. I’m not saying it couldn’t be done, but it would be a new feature.
I like the other suggestion of having a wrapper script that does what you need.
Yo dawg, I heard you like wall plates.
This was my first thought. I’m actually using this right now to set up WireGuard at my house so I can tunnel there from a remote location on several devices that don’t have ssh accounts on the target.
Next in line is
ssh -D 9999 remotehostwhich opens a socks5 proxy on localhost:9999 that tunnels all connections through the remote host. This is especially rad with proxy.pac https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Guides/Proxy_servers_and_tunneling/Proxy_Auto-Configuration_PAC_fileAnd next in line is
ssh -L 9999:target_host:80(or whatever) which tunnels 127.0.0.1:9999 to target_host:80.