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

I have written a code to delete entries from host. You can easily change the code to add entries to it from the code.

$domainName = "www.abc.com"
$rplaceStr = ""
$rHost = "C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts"
$items = Get-Content $rHost | Select-String $domainName
Write-host $items
foreach( $item in $items)
{
(Get-Content $rHost) -replace $item, $rplaceStr| Set-Content $rHost
}

For more information see http://nisanthkv.blog.com/2012/06/13/remove-host-entries-using-powershell/