https://github.com/mitjafelicijan/hosts

/etc/hosts CLI toggler
https://github.com/mitjafelicijan/hosts

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/etc/hosts CLI toggler

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/mitjafelicijan/hosts
• Owner: mitjafelicijan
• License: mit
• Created: 2014-10-11T20:47:43.000Z (over 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2014-10-13T21:30:32.000Z (over 11 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-03-30T04:38:08.878Z (about 3 years ago)
• Topics: bash, hosts
• Language: Python
• Size: 203 KB
• Stars: 4
• Watchers: 0
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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README

          
# CLI /etc/hosts easy toggler

### Contact & Features

You can contact me via:

  - Twitter @mitjafelicijan or #clihosts

  - Email 

  - Github issues 

### Updates

 - (October 12, 2014) Added support for user input history. You can use up and down arrow

to access previously entered host row id's.

### Installation

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

### Usage

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)

![alt text](screenshoots/window.png)

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.

![alt text](screenshoots/window-disabled.png)

| User input  | Description                     |

| ----------- | ------------------------------- |

| 1 .. n      | Hosts row id you want to toggle |

| q or Q      | Quit application                |

| r or R      | Reload hosts list               |

**Youtube video preview**

Click on a thumbnail bellow.

[![Youtube video](http://img.youtube.com/vi/03pb37Y-03g/3.jpg)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03pb37Y-03g)

### Warning

Please beware that this script updates /etc/hosts file so it is advised

to make backup of the file before using it.

### License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2014 Mitja Felicijan 

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:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in

all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR

IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,

FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE

AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER

LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,

OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN

THE SOFTWARE.