the-book-of-secret-knowledge

"Knowledge is powerful, be careful how you use it!"

A collection of inspiring lists, manuals, cheatsheets, blogs, hacks, one-liners, cli/web tools, and more.

:notebook_with_decorative_cover:  What is it?

This repository is a collection of various materials and tools that I use every day in my work. It contains a lot of useful information gathered in one piece. It is an invaluable source of knowledge for me that I often look back on.

:restroom:  For whom?

For everyone, really. Here everyone can find their favourite tastes. But to be perfectly honest, it is aimed towards System and Network administrators, DevOps, Pentesters, and Security Researchers.

:information_source:  Contributing

If you find something which doesn't make sense, or something doesn't seem right, please make a pull request and please add valid and well-reasoned explanations about your changes or comments.

A few simple rules for this project:

• inviting and clear
• not tiring
• useful

These below rules may be better:

• easy to contribute to (Markdown + HTML ...)
• easy to find (simple TOC, maybe it's worth extending them?)

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Before adding a pull request, please see the contributing guidelines. You should also remember about this:

+ This repository is not meant to contain everything but only good quality stuff.

All suggestions/PR are welcome!

Code Contributors

This project exists thanks to all the people who contribute.

Financial Contributors

:newspaper:  RSS Feed & Updates

GitHub exposes an RSS/Atom feed of the commits, which may also be useful if you want to be kept informed about all changes.

:ballot_box_with_check:  ToDo

• Add new stuff...
• Add useful shell functions
• Add one-liners for collection tools (eg. CLI Tools)
• Sort order in lists

New items are also added on a regular basis.

:anger:  Table of Contents

Only main chapters:

• CLI Tools
• GUI Tools
• Web Tools
• Systems/Services
• Networks
• Containers/Orchestration
• Manuals/Howtos/Tutorials
• Inspiring Lists
• Blogs/Podcasts/Videos
• Hacking/Penetration Testing
• Your daily knowledge and news
• Other Cheat Sheets
• Shell One-liners
• Shell Tricks
• Shell Functions

:trident:  The Book of Secret Knowledge (Chapters)

CLI Tools  ^[TOC]

:black_small_square: Shells

   GNU Bash - is an sh-compatible shell that incorporates useful features from the Korn shell and C shell.
   Zsh - is a shell designed for interactive use, although it is also a powerful scripting language.
   tclsh - is a very powerful cross-platform shell, suitable for a huge range of uses.
   bash-it - is a framework for using, developing and maintaining shell scripts and custom commands.
   Oh My ZSH! - is the best framework for managing your Zsh configuration.
   Oh My Fish - the Fishshell framework.
   Starship - the cross-shell prompt written in Rust.
   powerlevel10k - is a fast reimplementation of Powerlevel9k ZSH theme.

:black_small_square: Shell plugins

   z - tracks the folder you use the most and allow you to jump, without having to type the whole path.
   fzf - is a general-purpose command-line fuzzy finder.
   zsh-autosuggestions - Fish-like autosuggestions for Zsh.
   zsh-syntax-highlighting - Fish shell like syntax highlighting for Zsh.
   Awesome ZSH Plugins - A list of frameworks, plugins, themes and tutorials for ZSH.

:black_small_square: Managers

   Midnight Commander - is a visual file manager, licensed under GNU General Public License.
   ranger - is a VIM-inspired filemanager for the console.
   nnn - is a tiny, lightning fast, feature-packed file manager.
   screen - is a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal.
   tmux - is a terminal multiplexer, lets you switch easily between several programs in one terminal.
   tmux-cssh - is a tool to set comfortable and easy to use functionality tmux-sessions.

:black_small_square: Text editors

   vi - is one of the most common text editors on Unix.
   vim - is a highly configurable text editor.
   emacs - is an extensible, customizable, free/libre text editor, and more.
   micro - is a modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor.
   neovim - is a free open source, powerful, extensible and usable code editor.
   spacemacs - a community-driven Emacs distribution.
   spacevim - a community-driven vim distribution.

:black_small_square: Files and directories

   fd - is a simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find.
   ncdu - is an easy to use, fast disk usage analyzer.

:black_small_square: Network

   PuTTY - is an SSH and telnet client, developed originally by Simon Tatham.
   Mosh - is a SSH wrapper designed to keep a SSH session alive over a volatile connection.
   Eternal Terminal - enables mouse-scrolling and tmux commands inside the SSH session.
   nmap - is a free and open source (license) utility for network discovery and security auditing.
   zmap - is a fast single packet network scanner designed for Internet-wide network surveys.
   Rust Scan - to find all open ports faster than Nmap.
   masscan - is the fastest Internet port scanner, spews SYN packets asynchronously.
   pbscan - is a faster and more efficient stateless SYN scanner and banner grabber.
   hping - is a command-line oriented TCP/IP packet assembler/analyzer.
   mtr - is a tool that combines the functionality of the 'traceroute' and 'ping' programs in a single tool.
   mylg - utility which combines the functions of the different network probes in one diagnostic tool.
   netcat - utility which reads and writes data across network connections, using the TCP/IP protocol.
   socat - utility which transfers data between two objects.
   tcpdump - is a powerful command-line packet analyzer.
   tshark - is a tool that allows us to dump and analyze network traffic (wireshark cli).
   Termshark - is a simple terminal user-interface for tshark.
   ngrep - is like GNU grep applied to the network layer.
   netsniff-ng - is a Swiss army knife for your daily Linux network plumbing if you will.
   sockdump - dump unix domain socket traffic.
   stenographer - is a packet capture solution which aims to quickly spool all packets to disk.
   tcpterm - visualize packets in TUI.
   bmon - is a monitoring and debugging tool to capture networking related statistics and prepare them visually.
   iptraf-ng - is a console-based network monitoring program for Linux that displays information about IP traffic.
   vnstat - is a network traffic monitor for Linux and BSD.
   iPerf3 - is a tool for active measurements of the maximum achievable bandwidth on IP networks.
   ethr - is a Network Performance Measurement Tool for TCP, UDP & HTTP.
   Etherate - is a Linux CLI based Ethernet and MPLS traffic testing tool.
   echoip - is a IP address lookup service.
   Nemesis - packet manipulation CLI tool; craft and inject packets of several protocols.
   packetfu - a mid-level packet manipulation library for Ruby.
   Scapy - packet manipulation library; forge, send, decode, capture packets of a wide number of protocols.
   impacket - is a collection of Python classes for working with network protocols.