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1-60 of 680 projects
161,807 stars

jlevy/the-art-of-command-line

Master the command line, in one page

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Stars161,807
40,644 stars

vim/vim

The official Vim repository

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Stars40,644
33,639 stars

SerenityOS/serenity

The Serenity Operating System 🐞

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Stars33,639
32,972 stars

ibraheemdev/modern-unix

A collection of modern/faster/saner alternatives to common unix commands.

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Stars32,972
27,013 stars

libuv/libuv

Cross-platform asynchronous I/O

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Stars27,013
21,912 stars

micropython/micropython

MicroPython - a lean and efficient Python implementation for microcontrollers and constrained systems

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Stars21,912
20,164 stars

carlospolop/PEASS-ng

PEASS - Privilege Escalation Awesome Scripts SUITE (with colors)

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Stars20,164
20,108 stars

programthink/books

【编程随想】收藏的电子书清单(多个学科,含下载链接)

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Stars20,108
17,938 stars

JacksonTian/fks

前端技能汇总 Frontend Knowledge Structure

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Stars17,938
16,030 stars

CISOfy/lynis

Lynis - Security auditing tool for Linux, macOS, and UNIX-based systems. Assists with compliance testing (HIPAA/ISO27001/PCI DSS) and system hardening. Agentless, and installation optional.

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Stars16,030
15,446 stars

jobbole/awesome-programming-books

经典编程书籍大全,涵盖:计算机系统与网络、系统架构、算法与数据结构、前端开发、后端开发、移动开发、数据库、测试、项目与团队、程序员职业修炼、求职面试等

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Stars15,446
15,267 stars

rust-lang/cargo

The Rust package manager

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Stars15,267
15,198 stars

glfw/glfw

A multi-platform library for OpenGL, OpenGL ES, Vulkan, window and input

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Stars15,198
15,160 stars

iggredible/Learn-Vim

Learning Vim and Vimscript doesn't have to be hard. This is the guide that you're looking for 📖

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Stars15,160
14,401 stars

shelljs/shelljs

:shell: Portable Unix shell commands for Node.js

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Stars14,401
13,464 stars

GTFOBins/GTFOBins.github.io

GTFOBins is a curated list of Unix-like executables that can be used to bypass local security restrictions in misconfigured systems.

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Stars13,464
13,015 stars

raspberrypi/linux

Kernel source tree for Raspberry Pi-provided kernel builds. Issues unrelated to the linux kernel should be posted on the community forum at https://forums.raspberrypi.com/

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Stars13,015
11,725 stars

trimstray/test-your-sysadmin-skills

A collection of Linux Sysadmin Test Questions and Answers. Test your knowledge and skills in different fields with these Q/A.

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Stars11,725
10,631 stars

benoitc/gunicorn

gunicorn 'Green Unicorn' is a WSGI HTTP Server for UNIX, fast clients and sleepy applications.

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Stars10,631
9,955 stars

johnkerl/miller

Miller is like awk, sed, cut, join, and sort for name-indexed data such as CSV, TSV, and tabular JSON

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Stars9,955
9,732 stars

MiCode/Xiaomi_Kernel_OpenSource

Xiaomi Mobile Phone Kernel OpenSource

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Stars9,732
9,563 stars

xonsh/xonsh

🐚 Python-powered shell. Full-featured, cross-platform and AI-friendly.

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Stars9,563
9,082 stars

Supervisor/supervisor

Supervisor process control system for Unix (supervisord)

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Stars9,082
8,923 stars

sveinbjornt/Sloth

Mac app that shows all open files, directories, sockets, pipes and devices in use by all running processes. Nice GUI for lsof.

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Stars8,923
8,131 stars

mumble-voip/mumble

Mumble is an open-source, low-latency, high quality voice chat software.

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Stars8,131
7,741 stars

dthree/cash

Cross-platform Linux commands in ES6

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Stars7,741
7,313 stars

TigerVNC/tigervnc

High performance, multi-platform VNC client and server

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Stars7,313
7,294 stars

Yelp/dumb-init

A minimal init system for Linux containers

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Stars7,294
7,241 stars

dspinellis/unix-history-repo

Continuous Unix commit history from 1970 until today

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Stars7,241
6,992 stars

arzzen/git-quick-stats

▁▅▆▃▅ Git quick statistics is a simple and efficient way to access various statistics in git repository.

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Stars6,992
6,843 stars

ravynsoft/ravynos

An open-source OS project that aims to provide source and binary compatibility with macOS® and a similar user experience.

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Stars6,843
6,642 stars

bmatzelle/gow

Unix command line utilities installer for Windows.

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Stars6,642
6,529 stars

kentcdodds/cross-env

🔀 Cross platform setting of environment scripts

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Stars6,529
6,334 stars

elves/elvish

Powerful scripting language & versatile interactive shell

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Stars6,334
5,919 stars

remzi-arpacidusseau/ostep-projects

Projects for an undergraduate OS course

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Stars5,919
5,777 stars

santinic/how2

AI for the Command Line

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Stars5,777
4,882 stars

royeo/awesome-programming-books

📚 经典技术书籍推荐,持续更新...

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Stars4,882
4,307 stars

topgrade-rs/topgrade

Upgrade all the things

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Stars4,307
4,279 stars

vslavik/diff-pdf

A simple tool for visually comparing two PDF files

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Stars4,279
4,199 stars

herrbischoff/awesome-command-line-apps

:shell: Use your terminal shell to do awesome things.

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Stars4,199
4,184 stars

niudai/How-to-be-a-good-programmer

I'm here to tell you some amazing stuff which teacher would never tell you.

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Stars4,184
4,148 stars

crossterm-rs/crossterm

Cross platform terminal library rust

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Stars4,148
4,111 stars

AlecAivazis/survey

A golang library for building interactive and accessible prompts with full support for windows and posix terminals.

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Stars4,111
4,010 stars

7-sevens/Developer-Books

编程开发相关书单列表整理

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Stars4,010
3,961 stars

jeroenjanssens/data-science-at-the-command-line

Data Science at the Command Line

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Stars3,961
3,789 stars

cli-guidelines/cli-guidelines

A guide to help you write better command-line programs, taking traditional UNIX principles and updating them for the modern day.

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Stars3,789
3,589 stars

rxyhn/yoru

夜 - Yoru | Aesthetic and Beautiful Awesome Environment :first_quarter_moon:

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Stars3,589
3,515 stars

TIM168/technical_books

:books:🔥收集全网最热门的技术书籍 (GO、黑客、Android、计算机原理、人工智能、大数据、机器学习、数据库、PHP、java、架构、消息队列、算法、python、爬虫、操作系统、linux、C语言),不间断更新中:hotsprings:

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Stars3,515
3,450 stars

hantmac/Mastering_Go_ZH_CN

《Mastering GO》中文译本,《玩转 GO》。

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Stars3,450
3,388 stars

robinrodricks/FluentFTP

An FTP and FTPS client for .NET & .NET Standard, optimized for speed. Provides extensive FTP commands, File uploads/downloads, SSL/TLS connections, Automatic directory listing parsing, File hashing/checksums, File permissions/CHMOD, FTP proxies, FXP support, UTF-8 support, Async/await support, Powershell support and more. Written entirely in C#.

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Stars3,388
3,362 stars

oilshell/oil

Oils is our upgrade path from bash to a better language and runtime. It's also for Python and JavaScript users who avoid shell!

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Stars3,362
3,324 stars

huihut/CS-Books

📚 Computer Science Books 计算机技术类书籍 PDF

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Stars3,324
3,321 stars

llenotre/maestro

Unix-like kernel written in Rust

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Stars3,321
3,278 stars

jhawthorn/fzy

:mag: A simple, fast fuzzy finder for the terminal

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Stars3,278
3,270 stars

alseambusher/crontab-ui

Easy and safe way to manage your crontab file

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Stars3,270
3,246 stars

thoughtbot/rcm

rc file (dotfile) management

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Stars3,246
3,186 stars

plasma-umass/browsix

Browsix is a Unix-like operating system for the browser.

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Stars3,186
3,152 stars

nwtgck/piping-server

Infinitely transfer between every device over pure HTTP with pipes or browsers

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Stars3,152
3,090 stars

acl-dev/acl

C/C++ server and network library, including coroutine,redis client,http/https/websocket,mqtt, mysql/postgresql/sqlite client with C/C++ for Linux, Android, iOS, MacOS, Windows, Harmony,etc..

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Stars3,090
3,053 stars

nix-rust/nix

Rust friendly bindings to *nix APIs

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Stars3,053
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