You can contact me via:
- Twitter @mitjafelicijan or #clihosts
- Email mitja.felicijan@gmail.com
- Github issues https://github.com/mitjafelicijan/hosts/issues
- (October 12, 2014) Added support for user input history. You can use up and down arrow to access previously entered host row id's.
If you have existing hosts defined please make sure that the ones commented have space between # and host otherwise script will not work properly. It is on a todo to support this non-space comments.
Not ok
#127.0.0.1 admin.abcsearch.com
Ok
# 127.0.0.1 admin.abcsearch.com
Installation
cd /path-to-wherever-you-want-your-script/
wget -O hosts.py https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mitjafelicijan/hosts/master/hosts.py && chmod +x hosts.py
Because we are attempting to modify system files we need to execute script with root privileges. So use it with sudo.
sudo ./hosts.py --version
sudo ./hosts.py --help
sudo ./hosts.py path-to-your-hosts-file
(by default /etc/hosts will be used)
Default view when you launch application. Gray rows are disabled hosts. Green rows are enabled hosts. numbers in square brackets on the left side of row represents row number in hosts file. You address record you want to toggle by inserting row number in the user input and pressing enter.
| User input | Description |
|---|---|
| 1 .. n | Hosts row id you want to toggle |
| q or Q | Quit application |
| r or R | Reload hosts list |
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Please beware that this script updates /etc/hosts file so it is advised to make backup of the file before using it.
The MIT License (MIT)
Copyright (c) 2014 Mitja Felicijan mitja.felicijan@gmail.com
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
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