Hoster

Easy manage host files via a CLI

Installation

Installing is a simple as ABC

curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/victorbjelkholm/Hoster/master/install.sh | sh

Default install is in /usr/bin, if you want to change it, add a PREFIX environment variable before the curl command.

PREFIX=/home/victor/bin curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/victorbjelkholm/Hoster/master/install.sh | sh

Usage

hoster

Without any argument, hoster prints the current active hostfile

hoster install

Install hoster into a path where all the hosts file are stored.

hoster use hostfile1

Uses host file with filename hostfile1 as the current, active host file.

hoster list

Lists all the hosts file inside the folder where hoster is installed.

hoster create hostfile1

Creates a new host file with filename hostfile1, based on your original

Testing, Building & Installing

make test

Runs the test, shunit2 is needed for this ( https://code.google.com/p/shunit2/ )

make build

Build an executable from the shellscript

make install

Installs the executable to /usr/bin/hoster. If you want to install elsewhere, just copy the hoster executable to wherever you want after running make build

Contributing

Just submit a Pull Request and/or report issues you find. If something is unclear, please help me make it better for others.

Planned features

• "Namespaces" via dots in filenames
• Autocompletion