Generate a /etc/hosts file from the command line
This is a simple example of how you can populate a /etc/hosts file with 100 IPs and hosts from the command line # N=1; for i in $(seq -w 100); do echo “192.168.99.$N host$i”; P=$(expr $P + 1); done >> /etc/hosts The result file /etc/hosts 192.168.99.201 host001 192.168.99.201 host002 192.168.99.201 host003 192.168.99.201 host004 192.168.99.201 host005 […]