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Created February 27, 2012 16:13
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Shell script for cleaning/resetting /etc/hosts files messed up by MAMP Pro
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hostfix
#!/bin/bash
# copy this file to /usr/sbin
# if you have other hosts entries that you would not like to lose, make sure they get added to the hosts.mamp.bak file
cat /etc/hosts.mamp.bak > /etc/hosts
echo 'clean!'
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One line install

Open up your terminal and run this command
curl https://raw.github.com/gist/1925033/88a479a363b211253d0444fe7d4e2cf5afcc6f75/hostfix > /usr/sbin/hostfix && chmod a+x /usr/sbin/hostfix

Usage

This will need to be run as sudo
sudo hostfix

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