Powershell to manipulate host file

Question

I am looking at to see if I can create powershell script to update the contents in the host file.

Anybody know if there are any examples that manipulate the host file u

Answer 1

All of these answers are pretty elaborate. This is all you need to add a hosts file entry:

Add-Content -Path C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts -Value "127.0.0.1`tlocalhost" -Force

IP address and hostname are separated by `t which is the powershell notation for a tab character.