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DevOps CLI Tools

CLI Tools

Shells

  • https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/ GNU Bash: - is an sh-compatible shell that incorporates useful features from the Korn shell and C shell.
  • https://www.zsh.org/ Zsh: - is a shell designed for interactive use, although it is also a powerful scripting language.
  • https://tcl-lang.org/ tclsh: - is a very powerful cross-platform shell, suitable for a huge range of uses.
  • https://github.com/Bash-it/bash-it bash-it: - is a framework for using, developing and maintaining shell scripts and custom commands.
  • https://ohmyz.sh/ Oh My ZSH!: - is the best framework for managing your Zsh configuration.
  • https://github.com/oh-my-fish/oh-my-fish Oh My Fish: - the Fishshell framework.
  • https://github.com/starship/starship Starship: - the cross-shell prompt written in Rust.
  • https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k powerlevel10k: - is a fast reimplementation of Powerlevel9k ZSH theme.

Shell plugins

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

Managers

  • https://midnight-commander.org/ Midnight Commander: - is a visual file manager, licensed under GNU General Public License.
  • https://github.com/ranger/ranger ranger: - is a VIM-inspired filemanager for the console.
  • https://github.com/jarun/nnn nnn: - is a tiny, lightning fast, feature-packed file manager.
  • https://www.gnu.org/software/screen/ screen: - is a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal.
  • https://github.com/tmux/tmux/wiki tmux: - is a terminal multiplexer, lets you switch easily between several programs in one terminal.
  • https://github.com/peikk0/tmux-cssh tmux-cssh: - is a tool to set comfortable and easy to use functionality, clustering and synchronizing tmux-sessions.

Text editors

  • http://ex-vi.sourceforge.net/ vi: - is one of the most common text editors on Unix.
  • https://www.vim.org/ vim: - is a highly configurable text editor.
  • https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ emacs: - is an extensible, customizable, free/libre text editor, and more.
  • https://github.com/zyedidia/micro micro: - is a modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor.
  • https://neovim.io/ neovim: - is a free open source, powerful, extensible and usable code editor.
  • https://www.spacemacs.org/ spacemacs: - a community-driven Emacs distribution.
  • https://spacevim.org/ spacevim: - a community-driven vim distribution.

Files and directories

  • https://github.com/sharkdp/fd fd: - is a simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find.
  • https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu ncdu: - is an easy to use, fast disk usage analyzer.

Network

  • https://www.putty.org/ PuTTY: - is an SSH and telnet client, developed originally by Simon Tatham.
  • https://mosh.org/ Mosh: - is a SSH wrapper designed to keep a SSH session alive over a volatile connection.
  • https://eternalterminal.dev/ Eternal Terminal: - enables mouse-scrolling and tmux commands inside the SSH session.
  • https://nmap.org/ nmap: - is a free and open source (license) utility for network discovery and security auditing.
  • https://github.com/zmap/zmap zmap: - is a fast single packet network scanner designed for Internet-wide network surveys.
  • https://github.com/RustScan/RustScan Rust Scan: - to find all open ports faster than Nmap.
  • https://github.com/robertdavidgraham/masscan masscan: - is the fastest Internet port scanner, spews SYN packets asynchronously.
  • https://github.com/gvb84/pbscan pbscan: - is a faster and more efficient stateless SYN scanner and banner grabber.
  • http://www.hping.org/ hping: - is a command-line oriented TCP/IP packet assembler/analyzer.
  • https://github.com/traviscross/mtr mtr: - is a tool that combines the functionality of the ‘traceroute’ and ‘ping’ programs in a single tool.
  • https://github.com/mehrdadrad/mylg mylg: - utility which combines the functions of the different network probes in one diagnostic tool.
  • http://netcat.sourceforge.net/ netcat: - utility which reads and writes data across network connections, using the TCP/IP protocol.
  • http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/ socat: - utility which transfers data between two objects.
  • https://www.tcpdump.org/ tcpdump: - is a powerful command-line packet analyzer.
  • https://www.wireshark.org/docs/man-pages/tshark.html tshark: - is a tool that allows us to dump and analyze network traffic (wireshark cli).
  • https://termshark.io/ Termshark: - is a simple terminal user-interface for tshark.
  • https://github.com/jpr5/ngrep ngrep: - is like GNU grep applied to the network layer.
  • http://netsniff-ng.org/ netsniff-ng: - is a Swiss army knife for your daily Linux network plumbing if you will.
  • https://github.com/mechpen/sockdump sockdump: - dump unix domain socket traffic.
  • https://github.com/google/stenographer stenographer: - is a packet capture solution which aims to quickly spool all packets to disk.
  • https://github.com/sachaos/tcpterm tcpterm: - visualize packets in TUI.
  • https://github.com/tgraf/bmon bmon: - is a monitoring and debugging tool to capture networking related statistics and prepare them visually.
  • http://iptraf.seul.org/2.6/manual.html#installation iptraf-ng: - is a console-based network monitoring program for Linux that displays information about IP traffic.
  • https://github.com/vergoh/vnstat vnstat: - is a network traffic monitor for Linux and BSD.
  • https://iperf.fr/ iPerf3: - is a tool for active measurements of the maximum achievable bandwidth on IP networks.
  • https://github.com/Microsoft/Ethr ethr: - is a Network Performance Measurement Tool for TCP, UDP & HTTP.
  • https://github.com/jwbensley/Etherate Etherate: - is a Linux CLI based Ethernet and MPLS traffic testing tool.
  • https://github.com/mpolden/echoip echoip: - is a IP address lookup service.
  • https://github.com/troglobit/nemesis Nemesis: - packet manipulation CLI tool; craft and inject packets of several protocols.
  • https://github.com/packetfu/packetfu packetfu: - a mid-level packet manipulation library for Ruby.
  • https://scapy.net/ Scapy: - packet manipulation library; forge, send, decode, capture packets of a wide number of protocols.
  • https://github.com/SecureAuthCorp/impacket impacket: - is a collection of Python classes for working with network protocols.
  • https://github.com/arthepsy/ssh-audit ssh-audit: - is a tool for SSH server auditing.
  • https://aria2.github.io/ aria2: - is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source command-line download utility.
  • https://github.com/x-way/iptables-tracer iptables-tracer: - observe the path of packets through the iptables chains.
  • https://github.com/proabiral/inception inception: - a highly configurable tool to check for whatever you like against any number of hosts.
  • https://mremoteng.org/ mRemoteNG: - a fork of mRemote, multi-tabbed PuTTy on steroids!

Network (DNS)

  • https://github.com/farrokhi/dnsdiag dnsdiag: - is a DNS diagnostics and performance measurement tools.
  • https://github.com/mschwager/fierce fierce: - is a DNS reconnaissance tool for locating non-contiguous IP space.
  • https://github.com/subfinder/subfinder subfinder: - is a subdomain discovery tool that discovers valid subdomains for websites.
  • https://github.com/aboul3la/Sublist3r sublist3r: - is a fast subdomains enumeration tool for penetration testers.
  • https://github.com/OWASP/Amass amass: - is tool that obtains subdomain names by scraping data sources, crawling web archives, and more.
  • https://github.com/google/namebench namebench: - provides personalized DNS server recommendations based on your browsing history.
  • https://github.com/blechschmidt/massdns massdns: - is a high-performance DNS stub resolver for bulk lookups and reconnaissance.
  • https://github.com/guelfoweb/knock knock: - is a tool to enumerate subdomains on a target domain through a wordlist.
  • https://github.com/DNS-OARC/dnsperf dnsperf: - DNS performance testing tools.
  • https://github.com/jedisct1/dnscrypt-proxy dnscrypt-proxy 2: - a flexible DNS proxy, with support for encrypted DNS protocols.
  • https://github.com/dnsdb/dnsdbq dnsdbq: - API client providing access to passive DNS database systems.
  • https://github.com/looterz/grimd grimd: - fast dns proxy, built to black-hole internet advertisements and malware servers.
  • https://github.com/elceef/dnstwist dnstwist: - detect typosquatters, phishing attacks, fraud, and brand impersonation.

Network (HTTP)

  • https://curl.haxx.se/ curl: - is a command line tool and library for transferring data with URLs.
  • https://gitlab.com/davidjpeacock/kurly kurly: - is an alternative to the widely popular curl program, written in Golang.
  • https://github.com/jakubroztocil/httpie HTTPie: - is an user-friendly HTTP client.
  • https://github.com/asciimoo/wuzz wuzz: - is an interactive cli tool for HTTP inspection.
  • https://github.com/summerwind/h2spec h2spec: - is a conformance testing tool for HTTP/2 implementation.
  • https://github.com/gildasio/h2t h2t: - is a simple tool to help sysadmins to hardening their websites.
  • https://github.com/trimstray/htrace.sh htrace.sh: - is a simple Swiss Army knife for http/https troubleshooting and profiling.
  • https://github.com/reorx/httpstat httpstat: - is a tool that visualizes curl statistics in a way of beauty and clarity.
  • https://github.com/gchaincl/httplab httplab: - is an interactive web server.
  • https://lynx.browser.org/ Lynx: - is a text browser for the World Wide Web.
  • https://github.com/browsh-org/browsh/ Browsh: - is a fully interactive, real-time, and modern text-based browser.
  • https://github.com/dhamaniasad/HeadlessBrowsers HeadlessBrowsers: - a list of (almost) all headless web browsers in existence.
  • https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/programs/ab.html ab: - is a single-threaded command line tool for measuring the performance of HTTP web servers.
  • https://www.joedog.org/siege-home/ siege: - is an http load testing and benchmarking utility.
  • https://github.com/wg/wrk wrk: - is a modern HTTP benchmarking tool capable of generating significant load.
  • https://github.com/giltene/wrk2 wrk2: - is a constant throughput, correct latency recording variant of wrk.
  • https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta vegeta: - is a constant throughput, correct latency recording variant of wrk.
  • https://github.com/codesenberg/bombardier bombardier: - is a fast cross-platform HTTP benchmarking tool written in Go.
  • https://github.com/cmpxchg16/gobench gobench: - http/https load testing and benchmarking tool.
  • https://github.com/rakyll/hey hey: - HTTP load generator, ApacheBench (ab) replacement, formerly known as rakyll/boom.
  • https://github.com/tarekziade/boom boom: - is a script you can use to quickly smoke-test your web app deployment.
  • https://github.com/shekyan/slowhttptest SlowHTTPTest: - is a tool that simulates some Application Layer Denial of Service attacks by prolonging HTTP.
  • https://github.com/OJ/gobuster gobuster: - is a free and open source directory/file & DNS busting tool written in Go.
  • https://github.com/ssllabs/ssllabs-scan ssllabs-scan: - command-line reference-implementation client for SSL Labs APIs.
  • https://github.com/mozilla/http-observatory http-observatory: - Mozilla HTTP Observatory cli version.
  • https://hurl.dev Hurl: - is a command line tool to run and test HTTP requests with plain text.

SSL

  • https://www.openssl.org/ openssl: - is a robust, commercial-grade, and full-featured toolkit for the TLS and SSL protocols.
  • https://gnutls.org/manual/html_node/gnutls_002dcli-Invocation.html gnutls-cli: - client program to set up a TLS connection to some other computer.
  • https://github.com/nabla-c0d3/sslyze sslyze
    • fast and powerful SSL/TLS server scanning library.
  • https://github.com/rbsec/sslscan sslscan: - tests SSL/TLS enabled services to discover supported cipher suites.
  • https://github.com/drwetter/testssl.sh testssl.sh: - testing TLS/SSL encryption anywhere on any port.
  • https://github.com/mozilla/cipherscan cipherscan: - a very simple way to find out which SSL ciphersuites are supported by a target.
  • http://www.tarsnap.com/spiped.html spiped: - is a utility for creating symmetrically encrypted and authenticated pipes between socket addresses.
  • https://github.com/certbot/certbot Certbot: - is EFF’s tool to obtain certs from Let’s Encrypt and (optionally) auto-enable HTTPS on your server.
  • https://github.com/FiloSottile/mkcert mkcert: - simple zero-config tool to make locally trusted development certificates with any names you’d like.
  • https://github.com/square/certstrap certstrap: - tools to bootstrap CAs, certificate requests, and signed certificates.
  • https://github.com/yassineaboukir/sublert Sublert: - is a security and reconnaissance tool to automatically monitor new subdomains.
  • https://github.com/trimstray/mkchain mkchain: - open source tool to help you build a valid SSL certificate chain.
  • https://github.com/Matty9191/ssl-cert-check ssl-cert-check: - SSL Certification Expiration Checker.

Security

  • https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/5/html/deployment_guide/ch-selinux SELinux: - provides a flexible Mandatory Access Control (MAC) system built into the Linux kernel.
  • https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AppArmor AppArmor: - proactively protects the operating system and applications from external or internal threats.
  • https://github.com/grapheneX/grapheneX grapheneX: - Automated System Hardening Framework.
  • https://github.com/dev-sec/ DevSec Hardening Framework: - Security + DevOps: Automatic Server Hardening.

Auditing Tools

  • https://www.ossec.net/ ossec: - actively monitoring all aspects of system activity with file integrity monitoring.
  • https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/6/html/security_guide/chap-system_auditing auditd: - provides a way to track security-relevant information on your system.
  • https://www.nongnu.org/tiger/ Tiger: - is a security tool that can be use both as a security audit and intrusion detection system.
  • https://cisofy.com/lynis/ Lynis: - battle-tested security tool for systems running Linux, macOS, or Unix-based operating system.
  • https://github.com/rebootuser/LinEnum LinEnum: - scripted Local Linux Enumeration & Privilege Escalation Checks.
  • https://github.com/installation/rkhunter Rkhunter: - scanner tool for Linux systems that scans backdoors, rootkits and local exploits on your systems.
  • https://github.com/hasherezade/pe-sieve PE-sieve: - is a light-weight tool that helps to detect malware running on the system.
  • https://github.com/carlospolop/privilege-escalation-awesome-scripts-suite PEASS: - privilege escalation tools for Windows and Linux/Unix and MacOS.

System Diagnostics/Debuggers

  • https://github.com/strace/strace strace: - diagnostic, debugging and instructional userspace utility for Linux.
  • http://dtrace.org/blogs/about/ DTrace: - is a performance analysis and troubleshooting tool.
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ltrace ltrace: - is a library call tracer, used to trace calls made by programs to library functions.
  • https://github.com/brainsmoke/ptrace-burrito ptrace-burrito: - is a friendly wrapper around ptrace.
  • https://github.com/brendangregg/perf-tools perf-tools: - performance analysis tools based on Linux perf_events (aka perf) and ftrace.
  • https://github.com/iovisor/bpftrace bpftrace: - high-level tracing language for Linux eBPF.
  • https://github.com/draios/sysdig sysdig: - system exploration and troubleshooting tool with first class support for containers.
  • http://www.valgrind.org/ Valgrind: - is an instrumentation framework for building dynamic analysis tools.
  • https://github.com/gperftools/gperftools gperftools: - high-performance multi-threaded malloc() implementation, plus some performance analysis tools.
  • https://nicolargo.github.io/glances/ glances: - cross-platform system monitoring tool written in Python.
  • https://github.com/hishamhm/htop htop: - interactive text-mode process viewer for Unix systems. It aims to be a better ‘top’.
  • https://github.com/aristocratos/bashtop bashtop: - Linux resource monitor written in pure Bash.
  • http://nmon.sourceforge.net/pmwiki.php nmon: - a single executable for performance monitoring and data analysis.
  • https://www.atoptool.nl/ atop: - ASCII performance monitor. Includes statistics for CPU, memory, disk, swap, network, and processes.
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lsof lsof: - displays in its output information about files that are opened by processes.
  • http://www.brendangregg.com/flamegraphs.html FlameGraph: - stack trace visualizer.
  • https://github.com/zevv/lsofgraph lsofgraph: - convert Unix lsof output to a graph showing FIFO and UNIX interprocess communication.
  • https://github.com/mozilla/rr rr: - is a lightweight tool for recording, replaying and debugging execution of applications.
  • https://pcp.io/index.html Performance Co-Pilot: - a system performance analysis toolkit.
  • https://github.com/sharkdp/hexyl hexyl: - a command-line hex viewer.
  • https://github.com/p403n1x87/austin Austin: - Python frame stack sampler for CPython.

Log Analyzers

  • https://github.com/rcoh/angle-grinder angle-grinder: - slice and dice log files on the command line.
  • https://lnav.org lnav: - log file navigator with search and automatic refresh.
  • https://goaccess.io/ GoAccess: - real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal.
  • https://github.com/lebinh/ngxtop ngxtop: - real-time metrics for nginx server.

Databases

  • https://github.com/xo/usql usql: - universal command-line interface for SQL databases.
  • https://github.com/dbcli/pgcli pgcli: - postgres CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.
  • https://github.com/dbcli/mycli mycli: - terminal client for MySQL with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.
  • https://github.com/dbcli/litecli litecli: - SQLite CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.
  • https://github.com/dbcli/mssql-cli mssql-cli: - SQL Server CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.
  • https://github.com/osquery/osquery OSQuery: - is a SQL powered operating system instrumentation, monitoring, and analytics framework.
  • https://github.com/ankane/pgsync pgsync: - sync data from one Postgres database to another.
  • https://github.com/laixintao/iredis iredis: - a terminal client for redis with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.
  • https://www.schemacrawler.com/diagramming.html SchemaCrawler: - generates an E-R diagram of your database.

TOR

  • https://github.com/GouveaHeitor/nipe Nipe: - script to make Tor Network your default gateway.
  • https://github.com/trimstray/multitor multitor: - a tool that lets you create multiple TOR instances with a load-balancing.

Messengers/IRC Clients

  • https://irssi.org Irssi: - is a free open source terminal based IRC client.
  • https://weechat.org/ WeeChat: - is an extremely extensible and lightweight IRC client.

Productivity

  • https://taskwarrior.org taskwarrior: - task management system, todo list

Other

  • https://github.com/skx/sysadmin-util sysadmin-util: - tools for Linux/Unix sysadmins.
  • http://inotify.aiken.cz/ incron: - is an inode-based filesystem notification technology.
  • https://github.com/axkibe/lsyncd lsyncd: - synchronizes local directories with remote targets (Live Syncing Daemon).
  • https://github.com/rgburke/grv GRV: - is a terminal based interface for viewing Git repositories.
  • https://jonas.github.io/tig/ Tig: - text-mode interface for Git.
  • https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr tldr: - simplified and community-driven man pages.
  • https://github.com/mholt/archiver archiver: - easily create and extract .zip, .tar, .tar.gz, .tar.bz2, .tar.xz, .tar.lz4, .tar.sz, and .rar.
  • https://github.com/tj/commander.js commander.js: - minimal CLI creator in JavaScript.
  • https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron gron: - make JSON greppable!
  • https://github.com/itchyny/bed bed: - binary editor written in Go.

Reference

  • https://github.com/trimstray/the-book-of-secret-knowledge
  • https://github.com/stars/j178/lists/modern-cli

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