I'm trying to create (and later close) a simple TCP port forward over SSH with Go. I'm new to Golang and statically typed languages. (Coming from Ruby.)

ssh -L 9000:localhost:9999 user@server.com

I have tried using this example as a starting point and this recent test to try to understand what to do, but now I have a pile of confusing jumbled code when it seems like this is actually a very simple thing to do.

Any help would be very much appreciated! :-)