hBlock - manual page for hBlock 3.4.5
hblock [OPTION]...
hBlock is a POSIX-compliant shell script that gets a list of domains that serve ads, tracking scripts and malware from multiple sources and creates a hosts file, among other formats, that prevents your system from connecting to them.
-O, --output <FILE|->, ${HBLOCK_OUTPUT_FILE}
Output file location.
If equals "-", it is printed to stdout.
(default: /etc/hosts)
-H, --header <FILE|builtin|none|->, ${HBLOCK_HEADER_FILE}
File to be included at the beginning of the output file.
If equals "builtin", the built-in value is used.
If equals "none", an empty value is used.
If equals "-", the stdin content is used.
If unspecified and any of the following files exists, its content is used.
${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/hblock/header
/etc/hblock/header
(default: builtin)
-F, --footer <FILE|builtin|none|->, ${HBLOCK_FOOTER_FILE}
File to be included at the end of the output file.
If equals "builtin", the built-in value is used.
If equals "none", an empty value is used.
If equals "-", the stdin content is used.
If unspecified and any of the following files exists, its content is used.
${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/hblock/footer
/etc/hblock/footer
(default: builtin)
-S, --sources <FILE|builtin|none|->, ${HBLOCK_SOURCES_FILE}
File with line separated URLs used to generate the blocklist.
If equals "builtin", the built-in value is used.
If equals "none", an empty value is used.
If equals "-", the stdin content is used.
If unspecified and any of the following files exists, its content is used.
${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/hblock/sources.list
/etc/hblock/sources.list
(default: builtin)
-A, --allowlist <FILE|builtin|none|->, ${HBLOCK_ALLOWLIST_FILE}
File with line separated entries to be removed from the blocklist.
If equals "builtin", the built-in value is used.
If equals "none", an empty value is used.
If equals "-", the stdin content is used.
If unspecified and any of the following files exists, its content is used.
${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/hblock/allow.list
/etc/hblock/allow.list
(default: builtin)
-D, --denylist <FILE|builtin|none|->, ${HBLOCK_DENYLIST_FILE}
File with line separated entries to be added to the blocklist.
If equals "builtin", the built-in value is used.
If equals "none", an empty value is used.
If equals "-", the stdin content is used.
If unspecified and any of the following files exists, its content is used.
${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/hblock/deny.list
/etc/hblock/deny.list
(default: builtin)
-R, --redirection <REDIRECTION>, ${HBLOCK_REDIRECTION}
Redirection for all entries in the blocklist.
(default: 0.0.0.0)
-W, --wrap <NUMBER>, ${HBLOCK_WRAP}
Break blocklist lines after this number of entries.
(default: 1)
-T, --template <TEMPLATE>, ${HBLOCK_TEMPLATE}
Template applied to each entry.
%D = <DOMAIN>, %R = <REDIRECTION>
(default: %R %D)
-C, --comment <COMMENT>, ${HBLOCK_COMMENT}
Character used for comments.
(default: #)
-l, --[no-]lenient, ${HBLOCK_LENIENT}
Match all entries from sources regardless of their IP, instead of 0.0.0.0, 127.0.0.1, ::, ::1 or nothing.
(default: false)
-r, --[no-]regex, ${HBLOCK_REGEX}
Use POSIX BREs in the allowlist instead of fixed strings.
(default: false)
-f, --[no-]filter-subdomains, ${HBLOCK_FILTER_SUBDOMAINS}
Do not include subdomains when the parent domain is also blocked. Useful for reducing the blocklist size in cases such as when DNS blocking makes these subdomains redundant.
(default: false)
-c, --[no-]continue, ${HBLOCK_CONTINUE}
Do not abort if a download error occurs.
(default: false)
-p, --parallel, ${HBLOCK_PARALLEL}
Maximum concurrency for parallel downloads.
(default: 4)
-q, --[no-]quiet, ${HBLOCK_QUIET}
Suppress non-error messages.
(default: false)
-x, --color <auto|true|false>, ${HBLOCK_COLOR}
Colorize the output.
(default: auto)
-v, --version
Show version number and quit.
-h, --help
Show this help and quit.
Report bugs to: <https://github.com/hectorm/hblock/issues\>
Author: Héctor Molinero Fernández <[email protected]>
License: MIT, https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT
Repository: https://github.com/hectorm/hblock