Hosts Commander - modification of hosts from the command line

I would like to devote some time to the hosts file. About two years ago, when I once again climbed into the depths of the system directories to fix just one line in this file, I thought how cool it would be to work with hosts from the command line. Then the idea went to the diary, and for a long time remained intact. A couple of days ago, I implemented almost all the ideas that came to mind about this. I share the result with the habrasoobshchestvom. I would be glad if someone come in handy.

What happened?

And it turned out a small program hosts.exe, which can be briefly described as follows:

• Add, remove, and disable host operations
• Supports host mask operations
• Simple samples from hosts by attributes and mask
• Creating backup hosts and rollback last operation
• IDN support (you can create Russian domains)
• IPv6 address support
• Support for aliases (multiple domain names per line)
• Preserves the original layout and coding of the hosts file
• A large number of aliases for each team (as it is more convenient for someone)

Where can I download?

Project Page: Hosts Commander
Program: hosts-v1.3.zip (10 KB, .NET 3.5)
Source code: hosts-v1.3-src.zip (12 KB, C #, VS2010)

How to use it?

If you first copy the program file to the system directory, the utility will always be ready to work in the console or by pressing Win + R.

hosts list [enabled|disabled] [visible|hidden] <mask>

— ,
— —
— : view, select
— : list enabled visible local*
— : list vk

hosts add <host> <aliases> <addr> # <comment>

— , <addr> 127.0.0.1, <comment>
— <aliases>
— #
— # —
— : new
— : hosts add myhost.dev
— : hosts add another.dev 192.168.1.1 # Remote host

hosts set <host|mask> <addr> # <comment>

— IP
— # —
— : update, change
— : hosts set myhost.dev # new comment
— : hosts set another.dev 192.168.1.1

hosts rem <host|mask>

—
— : del, remove, delete
— : hosts rem *.local

hosts enable <host|mask>

—
— : on
— : hosts enable localhost

hosts disable <host|mask>

—
— : off
— : hosts disable local?ost

hosts print

— hosts
— : raw, file

hosts format

—

hosts clean

—

hosts backup <name>

— hosts
— <name> , — backup

hosts restore <name>

— hosts
— <name> , — backup

hosts rollback

— hosts

hosts open

— hosts

hosts hide <host|mask>

— hosts.exe
— , ,

hosts show <host|mask>

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