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the-book-of-secret-knowledge

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

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"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.


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📔  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.

🚻  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.

ℹ️  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

📰  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.

☑️  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.

💢  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

🔱  The Book of Secret Knowledge (Chapters)

CLI Tools  [TOC]

▪️ 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.

▪️ 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.

▪️ 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.

▪️ Text editors
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