NAME

       tsocks - Shell wrapper to simplify the use of the tsocks(8) library to transparently allow an application
       to use a SOCKS proxy

SYNOPSIS

       tsocks [application [application's arguments]]
       or tsocks [-on|-off]
       or tsocks

DESCRIPTION

       tsocks is a wrapper between the tsocks library and the application what you would like to run socksified.

OPTIONS

       [application [application's arguments]]
              run the application as specified with the environment (LD_PRELOAD) set such  that  tsocks(8)  will
              transparently proxy SOCKS connections in that program

       [-on|-off]
              this  option adds or removes tsocks(8) from the LD_PRELOAD environment variable. When tsocks(8) is
              in this variable all executed applications are automatically socksified. If you want to  use  this
              function,  you  HAVE to source the shell script from yours, like this: "source /usr/bin/tsocks" or
              ". /usr/bin/tsocks"
              Example:
              ". tsocks -on" -- add the tsocks lib to LD_PRELOAD (don't forget the leading dot!)
              ". tsocks -off" -- remove the tsocks lib from LD_PRELOAD (don't forget the leading dot!)

       [-show|-sh]
              show the current value of the LD_PRELOAD variable

       <without any argument>
              create a new shell with LD_PRELOAD including tsocks(8).

SEE ALSO

       tsocks.conf(5) tsocks(8)

AUTHOR

       This script was created by Tamas SZERB <toma@rulez.org> for the debian package of tsocks. It (along  with
       this manual page) have since been adapted into the main tsocks project and modified.