hostess

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  "github_readme_excerpt": "# hostess [![Linux Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/cbednarski/hostess.svg)](https://travis-ci.org/cbednarski/hostess) [![Windows Build Status](https://ci.appveyor.com/api/projects/status/wtxqb880b7v9dfgn/branch/master?svg=true)](https://ci.appveyor.com/project/cbednarski/hostess/branch/master) [![GoDoc](https://godoc.org/github.com/cbednarski/hostess?status.svg)](http://godoc.org/github.com/cbednarski/hostess)\n\nAn **idempotent** command-line utility for managing your `/etc/hosts`* file.\n\n    hostess add local.example.com 127.0.0.1\n    hostess add staging.example.com 10.0.2.16\n\nWhy? Because you edit `/etc/hosts` for development, testing, and debugging.\nBecause sometimes DNS doesn\u0027t work in production. And because editing\n`/etc/hosts` by hand is a pain. Put hostess in your `Makefile` or deploy scripts\nand call it a day.\n\n\\* And `C:\\Windows\\System32\\drivers\\etc\\hosts` on Windows.\n\n**Note: 0.4.0 has backwards incompatible changes in the API and CLI.** See\n`CHANGELOG.md` for details.\n\n## Installation\n\nDownload a [precompiled release](https://github.com/cbednarski/hostess/releases)\nfrom GitHub, or build from source (with a [recent version of Go](https://golang.org/dl)):\n\n    git clone https://github.com/cbednarski/hostess\n    cd hostess\n    make install\n\n## Usage\n\nRun `hostess` or `hostess -h` to see a full list of commands.\n\n**Note** The hosts file is protected. On unixes you will need to use `sudo` or\nrun the `hostess` command as root. On Windows, you will need to run `hostess`\nfrom an elevated prompt (right click and _Run as administrator_).\n\n## Format\n\nOn unixes, hostess follows the format specified by `man hosts`, with one line\nper IP address:\n\n    127.0.0.1 localhost hostname2 hostname3\n    127.0.1.1 machine.name\n    # 10.10.20.30 some.host\n\nOn Windows, hostess writes each hostname on its own line.\n\n    127.0.0.1 localhost\n    127.0.0.1 hostname2\n    127.0.0.1 hostname3\n\n## Configuration\n\nhostess may be configured via environment variables.\n\n- `HOSTESS_FMT` may ",
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