maybe(1)

maybe1

See what a command does before applying its changes

Usage

maybe <command> [<options>]

Overview

maybe runs the given command and intercepts any filesystems changes it attempts to make, indicating that they succeed without actually applying the changes. Once command has finished, maybe reports all the changes attempted, and if there were any such changes, offers to re-run command without filtering them.

maybe should never be used to check untrusted code since only a few system calls are blocked.

Releases

Unchanged in 4 releases since Debian 9 (Stretch).

  1. 9–12

Authors

maybe was written by Philipp Emanuel Weidmann.

This manual page was written by Stephen Kitt <[email protected]> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

From maybe 0.4.0-6 in Debian 12 (Bookworm). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.