npm install hosts-util



Parse and stringify hosts file.
``sh`
npm install hosts-util --save
`js
const hostsUtil = require('hosts-util')
const hosts = fs.readFileSync('/etc/hosts', 'utf8')
hostsUtil.parse(
127.0.0.1 localhost
192.168.0.1 www.example.com www.example.org)
// deep equals to
{
localhost: '127.0.0.1',
'www.example.com': '192.168.0.1',
'www.example.org': '192.168.0.1',
}
`
`js
const hostsUtil = require('hosts-util')
hostsUtil.stringify({
localhost: '127.0.0.1',
'www.example.com': '192.168.0.1',
'www.example.org': '192.168.0.1',
})
// equals to
// 127.0.0.1 localhost
// 192.168.0.1 www.example.com
// 192.168.0.1 www.example.org
hostsUtil.stringify({
localhost: '127.0.0.1',
'www.example.com': '192.168.0.1',
'www.example.org': '192.168.0.1',
}, {
separator: '\t' // separator between ip and host name, a space default
})
// equals to
// 127.0.0.1 localhost
// 192.168.0.1 www.example.com
// 192.168.0.1 www.example.org
``
MIT