HOSTFILES(1p)

💖 NAME 💖

ok so hostfiles — it's a simple script bestie, and it manages multiple sets of hostfiles on *NIX systems. that's the whole vibe. 🌸

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

hostfiles [options]

  Options:
    --enable        Enable one or more hostfile fragments
    --disable       Disable one or more hostfile fragments
    --status        Display the status of various hostfile fragments
    --interactive   Present an interactive list of hostfile fragments

like… that's it. that's the whole thing. run it with some options, she does her thing. 💅

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• --enable — turns on one or more hostfile fragments. and listen, you can drop this option multiple times, and you can also put a whole comma-separated list of fragments in one go. stack it, bestie. ✨
• --disable — turns off one or more hostfile fragments. same deal as above fr fr: repeat the option as many times as you want, and/or pass a comma-separated list. 🦋
• --status — shows you a lil list of fragments and where they stand. and here's the key, don't miss it:
  • a + means the fragment is enabled
  • a * means an enabled fragment has been changed in /etc/hosts

the way that little asterisk is telling on your hostfile… iconic. 👑

• --interactive — presents an interactive list of hostfile fragments for you to enable or disable. very choose-your-own-adventure, very main character energy. 🌈

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

ok so here's what's actually happening under the hood. this program reads the hostfile fragments you told it to enable from /etc/hostfiles/<fragment_name> and adds them into /etc/hosts. and if you told it to disable some fragments? it removes those from /etc/hosts. that's the tea. 🫖✨

so basically: /etc/hostfiles/ is where your lil fragment files live, /etc/hosts is where they get deployed, and hostfiles is the middlewoman keeping everything in check. no cap. 💖

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📜 LICENSE 📜

Copyright (c) 2010-11 Anthony J. Mirabella. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

so like, go forth and remix, but under Perl's own terms, bestie. that's the deal. 🫶

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Anthony J. Mirabella <mirabeaj AT gmail DOT com>

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and that's the whole page, babes 💖 this one came from the User Contributed Perl Documentation set — it's HOSTFILES(1p), built against perl v5.36.0, dated 2022-11-19. love that for us. go enable some fragments, slay responsibly. 🌸✨💅