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Curtain LogTrace File Activity MonitoringCurtain LogTrace File Activity Monitoring is an enterprise file activity monitoring solution. It tracks user actions: create, copy, move, delete, rename, print, open, close, save. Includes source/destination paths and disk type. Perfect for monitoring user file activities.
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eDEX-UI
Customizable science fiction terminal emulator
eDEX-UI is a fullscreen, cross-platform terminal emulator and system monitor designed with a customizable science fiction computer interface. Inspired by the TRON Legacy movie effects, eDEX-UI presents a futuristic look and feel while still being able to function as a full-featured terminal emulator. eDEX-UI offers advanced monitoring support for real-time systems and networks. It also offers full touchscreen support; a directory viewer; and for a completely unique sci-fi experience, advanced customization options via themes, on-screen keyboard layouts, CSS injections, and even optional sound effects. If you’re a science fiction fan or are just looking for something different in a terminal emulator, eDEX-UI will surely satisfy and give you a cool and unique experience. -
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This project provides a proxy that allows telnet/tcp connections to be made to serial ports on a machine.
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electerm
Terminal/SSH/SFTP client (Linux, Mac, Win)
electerm is a terminal/ssh/sftp client (Linux, Mac, Win) based on electron/ssh2/node-pty/xterm/antd/subx and many other libs. Works as a terminal/file manager or ssh/sftp client (similar to xshell). Global hotkey to toggle window visibility (similar to guake, default is ctrl + 2) Multi platform (Linux, Mac, Win). Multi-language support (electerm-locales, contributions/fixes welcome) Double click to directly edit (small) remote files. Edit (small) local files with built-in editor. Auth with publicKey + password. Support Zmodem (rz, sz). Support Trzsz (trz/tsz), similar to rz/sz, and compatible with tmux. Transparent window (Mac, Win). Terminal background image. Global/session proxy. Quick commands. UI/terminal theme. Sync bookmarks/themes/quick commands to GitHub/Gitee secret gist. Support serial Port (version > 1.21.8). Quick input to one or all terminals. -
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Termux
Terminal emulator application for Android OS extendible
Termux is an Android terminal application and Linux environment. At first start a small base system is downloaded, desired packages can then be installed using the apt package manager known from the Debian and Ubuntu Linux distributions. Access the built-in help by long-pressing anywhere on the terminal and selecting the Help menu option to learn more. Allows the app to view information about network connections such as which networks exist and are connected. Allows the app to create network sockets and use custom network protocols. The browser and other applications provide means to send data to the internet, so this permission is not required to send data to the internet. Allows an app to ask for permission to ignore battery optimizations for that app. This app can appear on top of other apps or other parts of the screen. This may interfere with normal app usage and change the way that other apps appear. -
The Secure And Reliable File Transfer Solution That You Control.Cerberus offers a variety of secure file transfer solutions to fit businesses of any size or business sector, including finance, technology, education, publishing, law offices, local, state, and federal government agencies, hospitals and many more.
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IPATool
Command-line tool that allows searching and downloading app packages
ipatool is a command line tool that allows you to search for iOS apps on the App Store and download a copy of the app package, known as an ipa file. Supported operating system (Windows, Linux or macOS). Apple ID is set up to use the App Store. To authenticate with the App Store, use the auth command. To search for apps on the App Store, use the search command. To obtain a license for an app, use the purchase command. To download a copy of the ipa file, use the download command. -
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WindTerm
A professional cross-platform SSH/Sftp/Shell/Telnet/Serial terminal
A Quicker and better SSH/Telnet/Serial/Shell/Sftp client for DevOps. WindTerm is a partial open source project, and the source will be gradually opened. Open source code includes, but is not limited to, the classes that can be used independently, such as functional, algorithms, GUI widgets, etc., as well as functional libraries, such as networks, protocols, etc., as well as all types that require open source according to the license. SSH v2, Telnet, Raw TCP, Serial, Shell protocols were implemented. Supports SSH auto-execution when the session is authenticated. Integrated local file manager, supports the move to, copy to, copy from, remove, rename, make new file/directory and so on. Supports Windows Cmd, PowerShell and Cmd, PowerShell as administrator. Supports Linux bash, zsh, PowerShell core, and so on. Supports MacOS bash, zsh, PowerShell core, and so on. -
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tmux
tmux is a terminal multiplexer
tmux is a terminal multiplexer: it enables a number of terminals to be created, accessed, and controlled from a single screen. tmux may be detached from a screen and continue running in the background, then later reattached. This release runs on OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Linux, OS X and Solaris. tmux depends on libevent 2.x, and on ncurses. To build tmux, a C compiler (for example gcc or clang), make, pkg-config and a suitable yacc (yacc or bison) are needed. Some platforms provide binary packages for tmux. -
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websocat
Command-line client for WebSockets, like netcat (or curl)
Netcat, curl and socat for WebSockets. Command-line client for WebSockets, like netcat (or curl) for ws:// with advanced socat-like functions. Connecting to and serving WebSockets from the command line. Executing external program and making it communicate to WebSocket using stdin/stdout. Text and binary modes, converting between lines (or null-terminated records) and messages. Inetd mode, UNIX sockets (including abstract namespaced on Linux). Integration with Nginx using TCP or UNIX sockets. Directly using unauthenticated SOCKS5 servers for connecting to WebSockets and listening WebSocket connections. Auto-reconnect and connection-reuse modes. Linux, Windows, and Mac support, with pre-built executables. Low-level WebSocket clients and servers with an overridable underlying transport connection, e.g. calling an external program to serve as a transport for websocat (for SSL, proxying, etc.). -
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Thinstation is a thin client linux distro using std. x86 hw. It can boot from network, pxe, syslinux, CD, floppy or flash-disk and connect to servers using VNC, RDP, XDM, SSH, Telnet, tn5250, tarentella, 2X, NX, Thinlinc, VMWare VDI or ICA.
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Sudo
Utility to execute a command as another user
Sudo is a program designed to allow a sysadmin to give limited root privileges to users and log root activity. The basic philosophy is to give as few privileges as possible but still allow people to get their work done. Before building sudo, make sure you have the current version. The latest sudo may always be gotten via anonymous ftp from ftp.sudo.ws in the directory /pub/sudo/ or from the sudo website. -
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PEASS-ng
Privilege Escalation Awesome Scripts SUITE
These tools search for possible local privilege escalation paths that you could exploit and print them to you with nice colors so you can recognize the misconfigurations easily. All the scripts/binaries of the PEAS suite should be used for authorized penetration testing and/or educational purposes only. Any misuse of this software will not be the responsibility of the author or of any other collaborator. Use it at your own machines and/or with the owner's permission. Here you will find privilege escalation tools for Windows and Linux/Unix and MacOS. Find the latest versions of all the scripts and binaries in the releases page. Check the parsers directory to transform PEASS outputs to JSON, HTML and PDF. -
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syft
CLI tool and library for generating a Software Bill of Materials
CLI tool and library for generating a Software Bill of Materials from container images and filesystems. syft is a CLI tool and Go library for generating a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) from container images and filesystems. Exceptional for vulnerability detection when used with a scanner like Grype. Generates SBOMs for container images, filesystems, archives, and more to discover packages and libraries. Supports OCI, Docker and Singularity image formats. Linux distribution identification. Works seamlessly with Grype (a fast, modern vulnerability scanner). Able to create signed SBOM attestations using the in-toto specification. Convert between SBOM formats, such as CycloneDX, SPDX, and Syft's own format. -
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fd
A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'
fd is a program to find entries in your filesytem. It is a simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find. While it does not aim to support all of find's powerful functionality, it provides sensible (opinionated) defaults for a majority of use cases. First, to get an overview of all available command line options, you can either run fd -h for a concise help message or fd --help for a more detailed version. fd is designed to find entries in your filesystem. The most basic search you can perform is to run fd with a single argument: the search pattern. Instead of just showing the search results, you often want to do something with them. fd provides two ways to execute external commands for each of your search results: the -x/--exec option runs an external command for each of the search results (in parallel), or the -X/--exec-batch option launches the external command once, with all search results as arguments. -
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empty
Run applications under pseudo-terminal (PTY) sessions
empty - run applications under pseudo-terminal (PTY) sessions to dialogue with interactive programs. Replace TCL/Expect with a simple tool and use your favorite shell (sh, bash, csh, tcsh, ksh, zsh, etc) -
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Radare2
UNIX-like reverse engineering framework and command-line toolset
A free/libre toolchain for easing several low-level tasks like forensics, software reverse engineering, exploiting, and debugging. It is composed by a bunch of libraries (which are extended with plugins) and programs that can be automated with almost any programming language. It is recommended to install it from git, alternatively, you can pick the last release (every 6 weeks) from Github. Batch, Commandline, visual, and panels interactive modes. Embedded webserver with js scripting and WebUI. Assemble and disassemble a large list of CPUs. Runs on Windows and any other UNIX flavor out there. Analyze and emulate code with ESIL. Native debugger and GDB, WINDBG, QNX, and FRIDA. Navigate ASCII-art control flow graphs. Ability to patch binaries, and modify code or data. Search for patterns, magic headers, and function signatures. Easy to extend and modify. Commandline, C API, script with r2pipe in any language. -
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Terminator
multiple GNOME terminals in one window
Terminator was originally developed by Chris Jones in 2007 as a simple, 300-ish line Python script. Since then, it has become The Robot Future of Terminals. Originally inspired by projects like quadkonsole and gnome-multi-term and more recently by projects like Iterm2, and Tilix, It lets you combine and recombine terminals to suit the style you like. If you live at the command line or are logged into 10 different remote machines at once, you should definitely try out Terminator. -
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MQTT X
Powerful cross-platform MQTT 5.0 desktop, CLI, and WebSocket client
MQTT X is a cross-platform MQTT 5.0 client tool open sourced by EMQ, which can run on macOS, Linux and Windows, and supports formatting MQTT payload. MQTT X simplifies test operation with the help of a familiar, chat-like interface. It’s easy and quick to create multiple, simultaneous online MQTT client connections, and can test the connection, publishing, and subscription functions of MQTT/TCP, MQTT/TLS, MQTT/WebSocket as well as other MQTT protocol features. MQTT stands for MQ Telemetry Transport. It is a publish/subscribe, extremely simple and lightweight messaging protocol, designed for constrained devices and low-bandwidth, high-latency or unreliable networks. To run MQTT Broker locally, EMQX is recommended: An Open-Source, Cloud-Native, Distributed MQTT Broker for IoT. After the MQTT is connected successfully, you can perform MQTT publish and subscription tests. -
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setserial is a program designed to set and/or report the configuration information associated with a serial port.
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SyncTERM
Cross-platform BBS (ANSI) Terminal
A cross-platform ANSI-BBS terminal designed to connect to remote BBSs via telnet, rlogin, or SSH. Supports ANSI music and the IBM charset when possible. Will run from a console, under X11 using XLib, or using SDL. -
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SSHTOOLS
Java SSH API
This project now hosts the third-generation of Java SSH API, Maverick Synergy. This API builds on the Maverick Legacy commercial APIs and delivers a new API in a unified client/server framework. This API is available to the community under the LGPL open source license. This update includes ed25519 support, support for the new OpenSSH private key file format and stronger key exchange algorithms. The project continues to host both the original API and legacy applications created around it, however, these are now considered deprecated and we do not recommend their use in anyway. -
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airgeddon
This is a multi-use bash script for Linux systems
airgeddon is an alive project growing day by day. Interface mode switcher (Monitor-Managed) keeping selection even on interface name changing. DoS over wireless networks using different methods (mdk3, mdk4, aireplay-ng). "DoS Pursuit mode" is available to avoid AP channel hopping (available also on DoS performed on Evil Twin attacks). Full support for 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz bands. Assisted WPA/WPA2 personal networks Handshake file and PMKID capturing. Cleaning and optimizing Handshake captured files. Offline password decrypting on WPA/WPA2 captured files for personal networks (Handshakes and PMKIDs) using a dictionary, brute-force, and rule-based attacks with aircrack, crunch and hashcat tools. Enterprise networks captured password decrypting based on john the ripper, crunch, asleap and hashcat tools. GPU support available for hashcat. Only Rogue/Fake AP mode to sniff using external sniffer (Hostapd + DHCP + DoS). -
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PAC is a Perl/GTK replacement for SecureCRT/Putty/etc (linux ssh/telnet/... gui)... It provides a GUI to configure connections: users, passwords, EXPECT regular expressions, macros, etc. You like 'SecureCRT/SSHMenu'? Check this tool and let me know
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Lazygit
Simple terminal UI for git commands
You've heard it before, git is powerful, but what good is that power when everything is so damn hard to do? Interactive rebasing requires you to edit a goddamn TODO file in your editor? Are you kidding me? To stage part of a file you need to use a command-line program to step through each hunk and if a hunk can't be split down any further but contains code you don't want to stage, you have to edit an arcane patch file by hand? Are you KIDDING me?! Sometimes you get asked to stash your changes when switching branches only to realize that after you switch and unstash that there weren't even any conflicts and it would have been fine to just check out the branch directly? If you're a mere mortal like me and you're tired of hearing how powerful git is when in your daily life it's a powerful pain in your ass, lazygit might be for you. -
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Wave Terminal
An open-source, cross-platform terminal for seamless workflows
Wave is an open-source AI-native terminal built for seamless workflows. Wave isn't just another terminal emulator; it's a rethink on how terminals are built. Wave combines the command line with the power of the open web to help veteran CLI users and new developers alike. Keep development moving forward without the copy, pasting, saving, and exporting headache. Built on an open web framework that is fully extensible. Quickly edit code on a local or remote machine with the same editor that powers VSCode. Great alternative to vim for new terminal users or quick updates. Preview Markdown files, render CSVs in a table (for copy/paste that works), and see JSON in a collapsable tree view right inline in your terminal. View any .jpeg, .png, .gif and more without sending the image to an external browser. Wave terminal sessions are persistent. Your sessions are restored through disconnects and reboots (even of the remote machine). -
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Zellij
A terminal workspace with batteries included
Zellij is a Rust-based terminal workspace tool—similar to tmux or screen—designed for both ease of use and configurability. It provides multi-pane and tab support, floating and stacked panes, session persistence, customizable layouts, mouse interaction, and a plugin system using WebAssembly. It supports multiplayer collaboration and works out-of-the-box while offering power users deep customization.
