PowerShell Editing Hosts file _powershell

Some time you may need to change the hosts file frequently, hard-coded some DNS. You have to find this file first, then right mouse button to select Notepad, open it. But when save, only then discovers, cannot save, originally needs the administrator authority. At this point you can save it to the desktop, and then copy back to the original location, this slightly more trouble.

In addition to the completion of the Hosts file, is to update DNS, at this time usually accompanied by a flush DNS operation. If you want to automate, then do it together.

Add the following script to your PowerShell profile, and the next time you type edit-hosts or eh directly in the Powershel console, you can open the Hosts file.

Copy Code code as follows:

Function edit-hosts
{
Start-process notepad-verb runas-argumentlist $env: windir\system32\drivers\etc\hosts-wait
Ipconfig/flushdns | Out-null
}
Set-alias EH edit-hosts