How could I overwrite file hosts in OS X?

Question

Well, in my company I have to change file hosts to map the domain to the LAN IP because our servers located here. Then when I arrive to home, I have to change hosts file again to comment out which IP I used at company.

I write this bash function to overwrite my /etc/hosts but no luck...

# Change host file function
chosts() {
   [ "$1" == "-h" ] && sudo cp ~/.local/hosts/hosts.home /etc/hosts
   [ "$1" == "-c" ] && sudo cp ~/.local/hosts/hosts.com /etc/hosts
}

I want to know why I can't copy or move my file to /etc/hosts and I also need a solution to do this trick.

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Use this function to overwrite hosts files!

chosts() {
   [ "$1" == "-h" ] && sudo cp ~/.local/hosts/hosts.home /private/etc/hosts
   [ "$1" == "-c" ] && sudo cp ~/.local/hosts/hosts.com /private/etc/hosts
}

Small notice

Remember to keep hosts.home and hosts.com with permission root:wheel