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scapy
Python2017–2022
secdev / scapy

scapy

Scapy: the Python-based interactive packet manipulation program & library.

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4Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
12.7KGitHub stars
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What it is

Scapy: the Python-based interactive packet manipulation program & library.

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 11:56:56 AM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year4 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2017-05-27 11:52:07 UTC to 2022-06-26 18:53:39 UTC.

0122017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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First of all, you might want to check out the subreddit: /r/commandline https://www.reddit.com/r/commandline/ general commands - awk/grep/sed/wc - text file processing - convert (image magick) - image processing tool - cpulimit - limit the cpu usage of a process - fdupes - check for duplicate files and optionally remove them - pdftk - concatenate pdf files and more - https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/ - rsync - back up tool - tmux - terminal multiplexer - almost always my first install - tree - view directory contents in a tree format - zcat/zmore - display a file that is compressed (e.g. zmore /var/log/syslog.2.gz) security/reverse engineering: - binwalk - search binary images for embedded files - gdb + peda - debugger with extensions - https://github.com/longld/peda - nmap - network scanning tool - radare2 - command li
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ne dissassembler - https://github.com/radare/radare2 - scapy - network packet crafting - https://github.com/secdev/scapy - tshark - network traffic analyzer - tcpdump - network traffic analyzer - xxd - hexdump tool Bonus: - find - find files - I often use this to find files containing a string: $ cat bin/findstring #!/bin/sh find . -type f -exec grep -i -l "$@" {} \;
In Ask HN: What are your favorite terminal programs?

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