Any plan to support group

[alswl]

Any plan to support group, for example, use a group to manage a group of hosts.

[cbednarski]

Are you thinking of glob-like matching on the hostname? Can you give me an example?

Unfortunately /etc/hosts does not support wildcard domains like *.example.com, though you can use these with dnsmasq or a similar tool. However, some commands like on/off could be made to work with glob-like syntax.

If you simply want act on an arbitrary groups of hostnames you can write a bash script to turn them all on/off at once, for example. Tracking arbitrary groups in /etc/hosts itself would likely require some kind of metadata to be written into a comment -- that is not something I plan to add.

[alswl]

@cbednarski

For example, I have a group named issue_1, when enable this group, a list of domain will enable:

• a.issue_1.domain.com
• b.issue_2.domain.com
• c.domain.com
• d.test.com

I can use hostess group on issue_1 to enable all of these domains, and use hostess group off issue_1 disable all of these domains. And use hostess group add issue_1 a.domain.com and hostess group del issue_1 b.domain to add or remove domain in group.

[cbednarski]

Thanks for clarifying! This is not something I plan to support, because it requires encoding additional metadata into /etc/hosts (or another file) to keep track of the groups. I recommend using a bash script instead to enable or disable multiple entries.

However, I would not mind supporting glob-like syntax, as in: #25. That feature may simplify things for you.

[alswl]

My solution, use script to manage hosts group.

demo: https://github.com/alswl/.oOo./blob/4a46365177439c729198bc8bd4092d8de6607fa0/.zshrc.etc.d/hosts-on-off.zshrc