Windows 7 – Change Proxy Settings from Command Line

EDIT: I am assuming you actually means Mac OS X, and not Mac OS..

You can use the commandline tool 'networksetup'

There is a manpage for it - networksetup(8)

man networksetup

You will find many options for proxy settings in there:

              [-setftpproxy networkservice domain portnumber authenticated username password]
              [-setftpproxystate networkservice on | off] [-getwebproxy networkservice]
              [-setwebproxy networkservice domain portnumber authenticated username  password]
              [-setwebproxystate networkservice on | off] [-getsecurewebproxy networkservice]
              [-setsecurewebproxy networkservice domain portnumber authenticated username password]
              [-setsecurewebproxystate networkservice on | off] [-getstreamingproxy networkservice]
              [-setstreamingproxy networkservice domain portnumber authenticated username password]
              [-setstreamingproxystate networkservice on | off] [-getgopherproxy networkservice]
              [-setgopherproxy networkservice domain portnumber authenticated username password]
              [-setgopherproxystate networkservice on | off] [-getsocksfirewallproxy networkservice]
              [-setsocksfirewallproxy networkservice domain portnumber authenticated username password]
              [-setsocksfirewallproxystate networkservice on | off] [-getproxybypassdomains networkservice]
              [-setproxybypassdomains networkservice domain1 [domain2] [...]] [-getpassiveftp networkservice]

Alternatively, if you just need to set the proxy for something like wget, or curl, then you can use the fairly universal 'http_proxy' and 'ftp_proxy' env variables.

Eg in bash:

export http_proxy=http://my.proxy.com:1234

Where '1234' is the port number.

cheers

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In Windows 7 proxycfg.exe has been replaced with the netsh command. Netsh.exe is a command-line scripting utility that allows you to, either locally or remotely, display or modify the network configuration of a computer that is currently running. To setup a local machine proxy you would use the following syntax:

• open a command prompt in administrative mode (hit start globe, type cmd, then hit Ctrl+Shift + Enter)

To set a proxy:

netsh winhttp set proxy [proxy server address:port number] [bypass list]

Example:

netsh winhttp set proxy "myproxy.proxyaddress.com:8484" "<local>;*.proxyaddress.com"

To check your proxy server setting:

netsh winhttp show proxy

To remove the proxy server setting:

netsh winhttp reset proxy

The netsh command is interactive so you can always just type netsh and then the subsequent commands you need to save some key stroaks.

Important note: If you're running on a 64-bit OS, and want the proxy to be applied for 32-bit processes as well, you'll need to also modify your settings by running C:\Windows\SysWow64\netsh.exe. This is caused by a bug in Windows 7's version of netsh.exe, which doesn't write the registry values to the Wow6432Node key. This bug seems to be fixed for Windows 10 (and probably Windows 8 as well)