goodhosts cli, fork of Lex Toumbourou's project goodhosts

Simple hosts file (/etc/hosts) management in a Go cli. One simple interface for any OS or architecture, script and automate hosts file updates using one simple tool.

Features

• List, add, remove and check hosts file entries from code or the command-line
  • Remove by IP, Host, or IP/Host
  • check returns proper exit codes for scripting e.g. goodhosts check 10.0.5.12 || echo "Missing hosts entry for 10.0.5.12"
• Clean hostsfile command will
• Consolidate duplicate IPs
• Remove duplicate hosts
• Alpha sort Hosts
• Sort IPs
• Help with OS limitations, e.g. 9 hosts per IP line in windows
• linux/darwin/windows support
• Custom hosts file support
• Backup/Restore
• Quick inline editor (vim/nano)

Installation

Visit the releases page and download the proper binary for your architecture. Unzip and run in place, put in your system path (linux: /usr/local/bin win: ~/bin) for easier access.

Usage

For full usage directions simply call goodhosts -h

$ goodhosts -h
  NAME:
    goodhosts - manage your hosts file goodly

  USAGE:
     goodosts [global options] command [command options] [arguments...]
  
  COMMANDS:
     add, a         Add an entry to the hostsfile
     backup         Backup hosts file
     check, c       Check if ip or host exists
     clean, cl      Clean the hostsfile by doing: remove dupe IPs, for each IPs remove dupe hosts and sort, sort all IPs, split hosts per OS limitations
     debug, d       Show debug table for hosts file
     edit, e        Open hosts file in an editor, default vim
     list, ls       List all entries in the hostsfile
     remove, rm, r  Remove ip or host(s) if exists
     restore        Restore hosts file from backup
     version
     help, h        Shows a list of commands or help for one command
  
  GLOBAL OPTIONS:
     --file value, -f value  override the default hosts: ${SystemRoot}/System32/drivers/etc/hosts
     --debug, -d             Turn on verbose debug logging (default: false)
     --quiet, -q             Turn on off all logging (default: false)
     --help, -h              show help (default: false)

Each sub-command can be called with a -h option to see detailed help information.

 $ ./goodhosts list -h
 NAME:
    goodhosts list - List all entries in the hostsfile

 USAGE:
    goodhosts list [command options] [arguments...]

 OPTIONS:
    --all       Show all entries in the hosts file including commented lines. (default: false)
    --help, -h  show help (default: false)

License

MIT