socat TCP-LISTEN:5500 EXEC:’ssh user@remotehost "socat STDIO UNIX-CONNECT:/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock"’

$ Tunnel a MySQL server listening on a UNIX socket to the local machine

Listens on local port 5500 and connects to remotehost with username user to tunnel the given socket file. Will work with anything, but can be useful if there’s a need for a local application to connect with a remote server which was started without networking.

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