A command-line tool to easily manage you hosts file.
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Warning: this repository is not yet feature complete, do not use. Please us hed instead.
ghosts
allows you to manipulate your hosts file from the command-line. By providing safe and easy commands you can add new hosts and aliases to your environment. This is a rewrite of the tool hed in the Go programming language.
This tool was inspired by my students to whom I teach a Basic Cyber Security class. In this class we utilize Hack The Box as a learning platform and most students struggle with editing the hosts
file when they get started. To make this easier for them I wrote a tool that gives them a safe means of adding and removing hosts in this file.
The tool is to be used as an user that can get elevated rights using sudo
.
If you have the go
binary installed you can simply install ghosts
by running
go get github.com/credmp/ghosts
It will pull in the latest version.
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Create your local
bin
directorymkdir ~/.local/bin
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Download the latest binary release
wget https://github.com/credmp/ghosts/releases/latest/download/ghosts -O ~/.local/bin/ghosts
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Make it executable
chmod +x ~/.local/bin/ghosts
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Ensure the
bin
directory is in your pathecho export PATH=\$PATH:~/.local/bin >> ~/.zshrc # if you use zsh echo export PATH=\$PATH:~/.local/bin >> ~/.bashrc # if you use bash
ghosts show
will color print the current hosts file.
ghosts show
Output:
# This is a comment
127.0.0.1 localhost
::1 localhost
127.0.1.1 pop-os.localdomain pop-os
ghosts add example.com 127.1.1.1
Will add the following line to the hosts file.
127.1.1.1 example.com
ghosts add demo.example.com
Will update the hosts file to add the subdomain to the parent domain as an alias
127.1.1.1 example.com demo.example.com
ghosts delete demo.example.com
If it is the primary name
, the shortest alias will be chosen as new name
for the host entry. If there are no aliases, the entire record is deleted.
ghosts delete 127.1.1.1
Will remove the entire record even if there are many aliases defined.
ghosts alias demo.example.com arjenwiersma.nl
Add a non-subdomain alias to a hostname. This is useful when a host (ip) has many different hostnames. Instead of adding an entry for every unique top level domain they can be added as aliasses.
Use the --file
parameter to test the features of ghosts
on a file that is not your hosts
file.
ghosts --file test.txt add example.com 127.0.0.1
See the open issues for a full list of proposed features (and known issues).
Contributions are what make the open source community such an amazing place to learn, inspire, and create. Any contributions you make are greatly appreciated.
If you have a suggestion that would make this better, please fork the repo and create a pull request. You can also simply open an issue with the tag "enhancement". Don't forget to give the project a star! Thanks again!
- Fork the Project
- Create your Feature Branch (
git checkout -b feature/AmazingFeature
) - Write your beautiful code
- Ensure test coverage did not decrease (
cargo tarpaulin --verbose --all-features --workspace --timeout 120 --out Lcov
) - Commit your Changes (
git commit -m 'Add some AmazingFeature'
) - Push to the Branch (
git push origin feature/AmazingFeature
) - Open a Pull Request
Distributed under the GPLv3 License. See LICENSE.txt
for more information.
Arjen Wiersma - @credmp - My website
Project Link: https://github.com/credmp/ghosts
- My students for showing me that editing a
hosts
file is not that easy.