Block List

A minimalist hosts-based tool for managing block lists and ad-blocking.

This project uses the excellent and regularly updated Unified Hosts lists from Steven Black.

Installation

shell cargo install block-list

Usage

shell sudo block-list /path/to/hosts your-desired-list

Examples

Basic usage:

```shell

Just use 'hosts' as the desired list if you only want ad-blocking.

sudo block-list /etc/hosts social ```

Pipe in a custom list:

cat someFile.txt | sudo block-list /etc/hosts OR cat someFile.txt | sudo block-list /etc/hosts social

Output

If successful, this command will append a new list or replace the current list at the tail of the supplied hosts file, eg:

shell Block List updated! 🔒

```txt

#

Host Database

#

127.0.0.1 localhost 255.255.255.255 broadcasthost ::1 localhost

Your list of addresses

1.2.3.4 somehost

...

Block List

0.0.0.0 some.custom.address.net 0.0.0.0 another.custom.address.xyz

0.0.0.0 some.malware.address.com 0.0.0.0 another.blocked.address.xxx ```