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A small shell script that will add and remove lines from the hosts file. Originally created by Claus Witt, http://clauswitt.com/319.html.
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#! /bin/sh | |
# @author: Claus Witt | |
# http://clauswitt.com/319.html | |
# Adding or Removing Items to hosts file | |
# Use -h flag for help | |
DEFAULT_IP=127.0.0.1 | |
IP=${3:-$DEFAULT_IP} | |
HOST_FILE=${4:/etc/hosts} | |
case "$1" in | |
add) | |
sed -ie "\|\s{1,\}$2\$|d" $HOST_FILE | |
echo "$IP $2" >> $HOST_FILE | |
;; | |
remove) | |
sed -ie "\|^$IP $2\$|d" $HOST_FILE | |
;; | |
*) | |
echo "Usage: " | |
echo "hosts.sh [add|remove] [hostname] [ip] [host file]" | |
echo | |
echo "Ip defaults to 127.0.0.1" | |
echo "Host file defaults to /etc/hosts" | |
echo "Examples:" | |
echo "hosts.sh add testing.com" | |
echo "hosts.sh remove testing.com 192.168.1.1" | |
echo "hosts.sh add testing.com 192.168.1.1 ~/hosts" | |
exit 1 | |
;; | |
esac | |
exit 0 |
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