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hostgroup

Tool for activating and deactivating groups of lines in /etc/hosts. This probably could have been a few lines of sed but whatever. :)

To use it, put <foo> at the ends of some lines in /etc/hosts.

hostgroup --off foo

comments those lines out, and

hostgroup --on foo

uncomments them.

hostgroup --groups

shows a list of all the groups in /etc/hosts.

hostgroup --list FOO

shows all the lines in group FOO.

The --path PATH option can be added with any other commands to change the path to the host file (default is /etc/hosts). The --dry-run (PATH) option writes the updated file to PATH (or to stdout if PATH is not provided) rather than overwriting the hosts file.