trimstray/the-book-of-secret-knowledge

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Mindmap

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  root((book-of-secret-knowledge))
    CLI Tools
      Shells and prompts
      Shell plugins
      Fuzzy finders
    Networking
      Network tools
      Traffic monitoring
    Security
      Penetration testing
      Hacking tools
    Shell skills
      One-liners
      Tricks and functions
    Learning
      Blogs and podcasts
      Tutorials
      Cheat sheets

mindmap root((book-of-secret-knowledge)) CLI Tools Shells and prompts Shell plugins Fuzzy finders Networking Network tools Traffic monitoring Security Penetration testing Hacking tools Shell skills One-liners Tricks and functions Learning Blogs and podcasts Tutorials Cheat sheets

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Things people build with this

USE CASE 1

Find a CLI tool for a specific sysadmin or DevOps task using the curated chapter index.

USE CASE 2

Look up shell one-liners and tricks to speed up your daily terminal workflow.

USE CASE 3

Research penetration testing tools and hacking techniques from the dedicated security chapter.

USE CASE 4

Discover vetted blogs, podcasts, and news sources to stay current in the tech and security world.

Getting it running

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In plain English

This repository is a personal knowledge base that the maintainer (trimstray) has turned into a public resource. The README opens with the line "Knowledge is powerful, be careful how you use it!" and describes the project as a collection of inspiring lists, manuals, cheatsheets, blogs, hacks, one-liners, CLI and web tools, and other reference material gathered in one place. The intended audience is named directly in a "For whom?" section: anyone can find something useful, but the focus is on system administrators, network administrators, DevOps engineers, penetration testers, and security researchers. Contributions are welcome via pull request, with a few rules: keep the project inviting, clear, not tiring, useful, and easy to find. The repo is MIT licensed and is backed by both code contributors and financial contributors on Open Collective. A GitHub Atom feed of the commits lets readers track updates. The body of the README is a large table of contents divided into main chapters. These include CLI Tools, GUI Tools, Web Tools, Systems and Services, Networks, Containers and Orchestration, Manuals/Howtos/Tutorials, Inspiring Lists, Blogs/Podcasts/Videos, Hacking and Penetration Testing, Your Daily Knowledge and News, Other Cheat Sheets, Shell One-liners, Shell Tricks, and Shell Functions. Each chapter then drills into many subsections. Inside, every subsection is a hand-written list of named tools with a short description and a link out. The CLI Tools chapter, for instance, has subsections for Shells (with entries for GNU Bash, Zsh, tclsh, bash-it, Oh My ZSH, Oh My Fish, Starship, and powerlevel10k), Shell plugins (z for directory jumping, fzf for fuzzy finding, zsh-autosuggestions, zsh-syntax-highlighting, awesome-zsh-plugins), and many more. So the practical use of the repo is as a reference index: you go to the chapter that matches what you are doing, scan the curated list of tools and articles, and click through to the originals.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1

I'm a sysadmin and need to monitor disk I/O on Linux. Suggest tools from the-book-of-secret-knowledge and show me how to use them.

Prompt 2

Give me 5 shell one-liners for filtering and transforming log files using grep, awk, and sed as curated in the-book-of-secret-knowledge style.

Prompt 3

I want to start learning penetration testing. Which tools in the-book-of-secret-knowledge's hacking chapter should I try first and why?

Prompt 4

Help me configure a custom Zsh prompt using Starship and fzf as referenced in the-book-of-secret-knowledge.

Prompt 5

List the top 10 CLI network tools from the-book-of-secret-knowledge and explain what each one does in one sentence.

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