---
name: "maybe"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "maybe"
version: "0.4.0-6"
release: "Debian 12 (Bookworm)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/maybe"
---

# maybe(1)

see what a command does before applying its changes

## NAME

maybe - see what a command does before applying its changes

## SYNOPSIS

**maybe** \<*command*\> \[\<*options*\>\]

## DESCRIPTION

**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.

## AUTHORS

**maybe** was written by Philipp Emanuel Weidmann.

This manual page was written by Stephen Kitt \<skitt@debian.org\> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).