Open Source Systems Administration Software

truffleHog searches through git repositories for high entropy strings and secrets, digging deep into commit history. TruffleHog runs behind the scenes to scan your environment for secrets like private keys and credentials, so you can protect your data before a breach occurs. Secrets can be found anywhere, so TruffleHog scans more than just code repositories, including SaaS and internally hosted software. With support for custom integrations and new integrations added all the time, you can secure your secrets across your entire environment. TruffleHog is developed by a team entirely comprised of career security experts. Security is our passion and primary concern, and all features are developed with best practices in mind. TruffleHog enables you to track and manage secrets within our intuitive management interface, including links to exactly where secrets have been found. TruffleHog runs quietly in the background, continuously scanning your environment for secrets.

Are you looking for a command that you used recently? Do you want to avoid the need to write long commands over and over again despite you used them recently? Are you looking for a tool that is able to manage your favorite commands? HSTR is a command line utility that brings improved Bash command completion from the history. It aims to make completion easier and more efficient than Ctrl-r. Apart to the completion, history can be managed (you can remove commands that e.g. contain sensitive information like passwords) and bookmark your favorite commands.

eix can access Gentoo portage ebuild information and description very quickly (using a local cache). It can also be used to access information on installed packages, local settings, and local and external overlays, and informs about changes in the tree.

A simple program to monitor drives changes. When a usb/lan/cd or any other device is connected to the PC, this program immediatly monitors its status.It also has the feature to auto start an application from any device.

CLeWMI (pronounced "clue me") is a Command Line WMI query tool. It's written in perl, for Windows. It allows dynamic querying of WMI from a command line. Works on Window NT, 2000, 2003, and XP. Stand alone executable available.

A Python/Tk gui for find and grep. FindEmAll is, compared with other similar file search tools, fast and resource-efficient and independent from any desktop environment (no Gnome or KDE libraries required).

NetZup is a multipurpose Windows management tool designed for identifying online nodes, installing software remotely and silently, running software and hardware inventories, locating users (last known and current), and easily browsing admin shares.

If you're an administrator that occasionally needs machines to use for testing then you WILL appreciate this! It will scan your network to find Windows machines that are switched on but with no-one logged in to them and allow you to RDP/VNC to them.

Proc Fine - and your Windows Processes will be fine! A little tool to manage all your Microsoft Windows processes.

Network grep, on steroids

Fast, simple and reliable way locating file duplicates on your computer. This free application will search your defined folders for exact copies of your pictures, documents, archives or other files.

Accepts a regular expression as an argument and any matches found (stdin) will be highlighted (stdout) using shell color escape sequences. Good for looking through logs/monitoring console output/etc.

SynchroMike is a two-way synchronisation program which allows the user to synchronize two directories. It comes with a handy user interface which displays differences between both storage locations as a tree. Update: This page is deprecated, find the new program at <a href="http://syncarus.net">syncarus.net</a>

A Java-based powerful disk usage utility. It outputs a table and a tree (both can be sorted). TinyScan is able to export the result to Excel, Access, MySQL and it can also scan remote computers. It is free and open source.

This Windows command-line file search utility provides the needed command-line search functionality in a case-insensitive manner for any file on a drive or within a specific directory. Executes faster than GUI! (Wildcards and Regex support coming soon!)

Yal can help you speed up the way you interact with your Windows based PC. You can easily access your favorite programs, documents, even browser bookmarks. You don't even have to type their full name. Yal can usually tell what you actually want, without expecting many input characters. There's also TAB completion that could come handy in some cases. The more you use Yal, the better it gets. It keeps count of the keywords you enter and the entries you execute, thus it will always give you the best possible suggestions. You can also perform simple math calculations, access your clipboard's history, termitate processes, you can quickly switch between opened windows, perform searches using your favourite search engines...and more to come.

A command line tool to get information about files on your file system thanks to SQL queries. It is able to point quickly broken symbolic links, hard links and sparse files. It targets Unix but it should run on any system where Perl is available.

pLsearch was created to assist System Administrators in their quest for grep'ing logs and other files for specific content, and then spitting it out in a format that is generally easy on the eyes.

Python script for doing mass extended-regular-expression based replacements on a stdin stream.

This program searches for both dynamic and static libraries, looking those ones which provide given object symbols. It will assist you in undefined symbol errors eliminating.

Tracks your most used directories, based on 'frecency'. After a short learning phase, z will take you to the most 'frecent directory that matches ALL of the regexes given on the command line, in order. For example, z foo bar would match /foo/bar but not /bar/foo. The rank of directories maintained by z undergoes aging based on a simple formula. The rank of each entry is incremented every time it is accessed. When the sum of ranks is over 9000, all ranks are multiplied by 0.99. Entries with a rank lower than 1 are forgotten. Frecency is a portmanteau of 'recent' and 'frequency'. It is a weighted rank that depends on how often and how recently something occurred. As far as I know, Mozilla came up with the term. To z, a directory that has low ranking but has been accessed recently will quickly have higher rank than a directory accessed frequently a long time ago.