Hosts

Hosts is a CMD commandline tool to manage your hosts file entries.

 Usage: hosts [OPTIONS] VALUE
 Shorthand for add: hosts VALUE

Copyright 2017 René Larch

  -e, --edit      Edit the hosts file in editor. set %EDITOR% to use your
                  favorite editor.
  -l, --list      List using wildcards or regex
  -a, --add       Add to hosts file
  -r, --remove    Remove from hosts file
  -f, --force     Use force (e.g. force remove)
  -i, --ip        Filter by ip address
  -n, --line      Filter by line number
  -R, --regex     Use regex for filter
  -d, --debug     Enables debuging
  --help          Display this help screen.

Install

If you have the chocolatey packagemanager installed, you can just run:

choco install hosts -version 1.1.0

if this fails you have to install chocolatey and you need to set your ExecutionPolicy to RemoteSigned.

I dont have chocolatey installed

Then run this:

PowerShell

# remember ExecutionPolicy
$old = Get-ExecutionPolicy
Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned

# install chocolatey
iwr https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1 -UseBasicParsing | iex

# install the package
choco install hosts -version 1.1.0

# reset ExecutionPolicy
Set-ExecutionPolicy $old

I wont to use Windows 10 PackageManager

Then run this:

PowerShell

# remember ExecutionPolicy
$old = Get-ExecutionPolicy
Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned

# install chocolatey
iwr https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1 -UseBasicParsing | iex

# just for windows 10: setup provider ;)
# you can scip this step
Install-PackageProvider -Name Chocolatey
Set-PackageSource -Name chocolatey

# install the package
Install-Package hosts -version 1.1.0

# reset ExecutionPolicy
Set-ExecutionPolicy $old