Route the traffic of any application through the Tor network. Note:
torsocks
will assume that it should connect to the Tor SOCKS proxy running at 127.0.0.1:9050 being the defaults of the Tor daemon. More information: https://manned.org/torsocks.
- Run a command using Tor:
torsocks {{command}}
- Enable or disable Tor in this shell:
. torsocks {{on|off}}
- Spawn a new Tor enabled shell:
torsocks --shell
- Check if current shell is Tor enabled (
LD_PRELOAD
value will be empty if disabled):
torsocks show
- Isolate traffic through a different Tor circuit, improving anonymity:
torsocks {{[-i|--isolate]}} {{curl https://check.torproject.org/api/ip}}
- Connect to a Tor proxy running on a specific address and port:
torsocks {{[-a|--address]}} {{ip}} {{[-P|--port]}} {{port}} {{command}}