How to open multiple port forwards with one line using OpenSSH

The solution to this is so simple that I’m probably going to forget it in a couple of days 😉 Going to put it here for me to find next time I forget

Here it is:

ssh -N -L 12345:localhost:12345 -L 23456:localhost:23456 -L 34567:localhost:34567 user@server

This will setup 3 port forwards on localhost from server. Need more ports? just add another -L section and you are set

Tested on OpenSSH 7.8p1 and LibreSSL 2.6.2

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