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shell aliases to temporarily block and unblock a set of hostnames to better focus
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focus.sh
# add to your shell startup file (e.g. ~/.zshrc or ~/.bash_profile)
export FOCUS_IGNORE_SITES="twitter.com api.twitter.com www.facebook.com www.nytimes.com"
alias focus='sudo echo "127.0.0.1 ${FOCUS_IGNORE_SITES} # FOCUS_IGNORE_SITES" | sudo tee -a /etc/hosts > /dev/null'
alias unfocus="sudo sed -i '' '/FOCUS_IGNORE_SITES/d' /etc/hosts"
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