jonhadfield / hostman

A hosts file manager

hostman

A simple command line tool for managing your hosts file. Add, remove or import entries from file or URLs.

Installation

pip install pyhostman

Usage

hostman add [-fqbcvq] [--force] [--path=PATH]
            ( [ENTRY ...] | [--input-file=FILE] | [--input-url=URL] )
hostman remove [-qbcvq] ([--address=<address>] [--names=<names>]) [--path=PATH]
             [--input-file=FILE] [--input-url=URL]
hostman --version

Options

-h --help                    show this help message and exit
--version                    show version and exit
-f --force                   first remove all existing entries that match
--address=ADDRESS            ipv6 or ipv4 address
--names=NAMES                host names
-q --quiet                   report only failures
-p --path=PATH               location of hosts file (attempts to detect default)
-i --input-file=FILE         file containing hosts to import
-u --input-url=URL           url of file containing hosts to import
-b --backup                  create a backup before each change
--exclude=VALUE              comma separated list of names or addresses
                             to exclude from operation [default: 127.0.0.1]
-c --count                   count entries added, replaced and removed
-v --verbose                 print verbose output

Examples

Adding a single entry

hostman add 1.2.3.4 example.com

Importing a list of host entries by URL

hostman add --input-url https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/167103/hosts

Requirements

Tested on python 2.7, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, pypy, and pypy3

License

MIT

hostman's Issues

Propagate force flag when adding/removing file or URL

When importing from file, the '--force' flag is not propagated and the conflicting records are not updated:
sudo add -f -i hosts.txt

The remove command using file input also seems not to work, e.g. sudo remove -f -i hosts.txt does not remove previously added records.

It seems that it will need some changes to https://github.com/jonhadfield/python-hosts.

Import Error with python_hosts 0.4.6

import hostman
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "/Volumes/DATA/ci/amac/client_tools/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/hostman/init.py", line 30, in
from python_hosts import Hosts, HostsEntry
ImportError: cannot import name Hosts

Unable to remove entries listed in a file

I try to remove from the hosts file specific entries listed in some hosts template file:

hostman remove --input-file hosts-to-remove.txt

... but nothing happens (literally, hostman says nothing and makes no changes in the hosts file).

It seems to me that it is a bug, but I may be mistaken.