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Abdennour TOUMI
Asked: 2016-04-13 22:18:11 +0800 CST

How to add entry to /etc/hosts with a built-in command line

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It turns out that editing /etc/hosts is enough to add an entry of DNS.

Is there a built-in cmd , where we can:

  1. add host

    cmd: $ sudo mycmd 10.103.23.34 myme.com

    Result : 10.103.23.34 myme.com

  2. Add hostname

    cmd : $ sudo mycmd 10.103.23.34 omac.org

    Result : 10.103.23.34 myme.com omac.org

  3. Modify IP

    cmd : $ sudo mycmd 10.103.23.18 omac.org

    Result : 10.103.23.18 myme.com omac.org

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3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    After seeking for CLI for /etc/hosts , we find : https://github.com/macmade/host-manager

    Amazing : 

    host-manager -add www.example.org 127.0.0.1
host-manager -remove www.example.org
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  2. I tried to get the host-manager tool listed above to work but it looks like maybe it's for Windows or macOS? It was trying to cross compile and didn't look right for Ubuntu. I found this tool 'Hostess' though which works great and seems to do exactly what the OP was looking for:

    https://github.com/cbednarski/hostess

    hostess add local.example.com 127.0.0.1
hostess add staging.example.com 10.0.2.16
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  3. Just to add to other suggestions - there's one more option which exists in standard Ubuntu package repositories - hostsed (github page + docs here). As a result install is as easy as apt install hostsed.

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