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1-60 of 934 projects
23,313 stars

AlDanial/cloc

cloc counts blank lines, comment lines, and physical lines of source code in many programming languages.

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Stars23,313
19,608 stars

brendangregg/FlameGraph

Stack trace visualizer

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Stars19,608
18,071 stars

so-fancy/diff-so-fancy

Make your diffs human readable for improved code quality and faster defect detection. :tada:

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Stars18,071
12,169 stars

EZLippi/Tinyhttpd

Tinyhttpd 是J. David Blackstone在1999年写的一个不到 500 行的超轻量型 Http Server,用来学习非常不错,可以帮助我们真正理解服务器程序的本质。官网:http://tinyhttpd.sourceforge.net

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Stars12,169
10,563 stars

sullo/nikto

Nikto web server scanner

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Stars10,563
10,189 stars

learnbyexample/Command-line-text-processing

:zap: From finding text to search and replace, from sorting to beautifying text and more :art:

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Stars10,189
9,743 stars

google/re2

RE2 is a fast, safe, thread-friendly alternative to backtracking regular expression engines like those used in PCRE, Perl, and Python. It is a C++ library.

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Stars9,743
9,470 stars

major/MySQLTuner-perl

MySQLTuner is a script written in Perl that will assist you with your MySQL configuration and make recommendations for increased performance and stability.

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Stars9,470
8,581 stars

sitaramc/gitolite

Hosting git repositories -- Gitolite allows you to setup git hosting on a central server, with very fine-grained access control and many (many!) more powerful features.

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Stars8,581
8,346 stars

HariSekhon/DevOps-Bash-tools

1200+ DevOps Bash Scripts - AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, APIs, SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Hive, Impala, Kafka, Hadoop, Jenkins, GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket, Azure DevOps, TeamCity, Spotify, MP3, LDAP, Code/Build Linting, pkg mgmt for Linux, Mac, Python, Perl, Ruby, NodeJS, Golang, Advanced dotfiles: .bashrc, .vimrc, .gitconfig, .screenrc, tmux..

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Stars8,346
5,971 stars

webmin/webmin

Powerful and flexible web-based server management control panel

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Stars5,971
4,886 stars

jlord/git-it-electron

:computer: :mortar_board: Git-it is a (Mac, Win, Linux) Desktop App for Learning Git and GitHub

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Stars4,886
4,884 stars

exiftool/exiftool

ExifTool meta information reader/writer

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Stars4,884
4,883 stars

theos/theos

A cross-platform suite of tools for building and deploying software for iOS and other platforms.

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Stars4,883
4,442 stars

sparklemotion/mechanize

Mechanize is a ruby library that makes automated web interaction easy.

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Stars4,442
4,434 stars

Jack000/Expose

A simple static site generator for photoessays

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Stars4,434
4,394 stars

sarabander/sicp-pdf

SICP PDF with Texinfo and LaTeX source

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Stars4,394
4,087 stars

imapsync/imapsync

Imapsync is an IMAP transfers tool. The purpose of imapsync is to migrate IMAP accounts or to backup IMAP accounts. IMAP is one of the three current standard protocols to access mailboxes, the two others are POP3 and HTTP with webmails, webmails are often tied to an IMAP server. Upstream website is

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Stars4,087
4,044 stars

darold/pgbadger

A fast PostgreSQL Log Analyzer

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Stars4,044
3,815 stars

jimsalterjrs/sanoid

These are policy-driven snapshot management and replication tools which use OpenZFS for underlying next-gen storage. (Btrfs support plans are shelved unless and until btrfs becomes reliable.)

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Stars3,815
3,652 stars

rsnapshot/rsnapshot

a tool for backing up your data using rsync (if you want to get help, use https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rsnapshot-discuss)

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Stars3,652
3,492 stars

ddclient/ddclient

ddclient updates dynamic DNS entries for accounts on a wide range of dynamic DNS services.

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Stars3,492
3,469 stars

ThePrimeagen/.dotfiles

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Stars3,469
3,364 stars

adrienverge/openfortivpn

Client for PPP+TLS VPN tunnel services

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Stars3,364
3,350 stars

weechat/weechat

The extensible chat client.

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Stars3,350
3,289 stars

apache/avro

Apache Avro is a data serialization system.

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Stars3,289
3,246 stars

thoughtbot/rcm

rc file (dotfile) management

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Stars3,246
3,166 stars

GuidoBartoli/sherloq

An open-source digital image forensic toolset

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Stars3,166
3,139 stars

sqitchers/sqitch

Sensible database change management

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Stars3,139
3,128 stars

irssi/irssi

The client of the future

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Stars3,128
3,028 stars

Difegue/LANraragi

Web application for archival and reading of manga/doujinshi. Lightweight and Docker-ready for NAS/servers.

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Stars3,028
2,873 stars

openresty/nginx-tutorials

Nginx Tutorials

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Stars2,873
2,745 stars

mojolicious/mojo

:sparkles: Mojolicious - Perl real-time web framework

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Stars2,745
2,700 stars

jfcoz/postgresqltuner

Simple script to analyse your PostgreSQL database configuration, and give tuning advice

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Stars2,700
2,648 stars

Moham3dRiahi/Th3inspector

Th3Inspector 🕵️ Best Tool For Information Gathering 🔎

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Stars2,648
2,544 stars

ZBar/ZBar

Clone of the mercurial repository http://zbar.hg.sourceforge.net:8000/hgroot/zbar/zbar

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Stars2,544
2,520 stars

get-iplayer/get_iplayer

A utility for downloading TV and radio programmes from BBC iPlayer and BBC Sounds

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Stars2,520
2,442 stars

apache/activemq

Apache ActiveMQ

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Stars2,442
2,364 stars

htrgouvea/nipe

An engine to make Tor network your default gateway

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Stars2,364
2,307 stars

Perl/perl5

🐪 The Perl programming language

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Stars2,307
2,274 stars

trapd00r/LS_COLORS

A collection of LS_COLORS definitions; needs your contribution!

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Stars2,274
2,258 stars

bagder/everything-curl

The book documenting the curl project, the curl tool, libcurl and more. Simply put: everything curl.

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Stars2,258
2,241 stars

neurobin/shc

Shell script compiler

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Stars2,241
2,173 stars

hatena/Hatena-Textbook

はてな研修用教科書

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Stars2,173
2,163 stars

ovh/the-bastion

Authentication, authorization, traceability and auditability for SSH accesses.

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Stars2,163
2,136 stars

munin-monitoring/munin

Main repository for munin master / node / plugins

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Stars2,136
2,119 stars

znc/znc

Official repository for the ZNC IRC bouncer

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Stars2,119
2,115 stars

digint/btrbk

Tool for creating snapshots and remote backups of btrfs subvolumes

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Stars2,115
2,088 stars

YabataDesign/afterglow-theme

[DEPRECATED] A minimal dark Theme for Sublime Text 2 and 3

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Stars2,088
2,086 stars

kaxap/arl

lists of most popular repositories for most favoured programming languages (according to StackOverflow)

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Stars2,086
1,982 stars

samyk/slipstream

NAT Slipstreaming allows an attacker to remotely access any TCP/UDP services bound to a victim machine, bypassing the victim’s NAT/firewall, just by anyone on the victim's network visiting a website

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Stars1,982
1,976 stars

jondonas/linux-exploit-suggester-2

Next-Generation Linux Kernel Exploit Suggester

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Stars1,976
1,966 stars

tobie/ua-parser

A multi-language port of Browserscope's user agent parser.

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Stars1,966
1,921 stars

oetiker/SmokePing

The Active Monitoring System

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Stars1,921
1,866 stars

niklasb/libc-database

Build a database of libc offsets to simplify exploitation

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Stars1,866
1,855 stars

msysgit/msysgit

msysGit has been superseded by Git for Windows 2.x

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Stars1,855
1,840 stars

SpiderLabs/ModSecurity-nginx

ModSecurity v3 Nginx Connector

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Stars1,840
1,820 stars

duckduckgo/duckduckgo

DuckDuckGo Instant Answer Infrastructure

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Stars1,820
1,790 stars

cbsheng/tinyhttpd

tinyhttpd的详细注释版,十分适合入门者学习的一个项目

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Stars1,790
1,784 stars

enki/libev

Full-featured high-performance event loop loosely modelled after libevent

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Stars1,784
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