maybe(1)

✨ maybe(1) — the manual page bestie ✨

hey bestie, welcome to the maybe(1) page from the General Commands Manual 🌸 this one is lowkey iconic and also a little dangerous if you use it wrong, so let's get into it 💅

✨ NAME ✨

maybe — see what a command does before applying its changes 👀

📜 SYNOPSIS 📜

maybe <command> [<options>]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so maybe runs the command you give it and intercepts any filesystem changes it tries to make. it tells the command "yep, that worked, slay ✨" without actually applying those changes. the command thinks it ate, but nothing really changed 💀

once the command has finished, maybe reports all the changes it attempted, and if there were any such changes, it offers to re-run the command without filtering them. it's giving "bestie, want me to run that for real now?" 🫶

🚨 DO NOT use maybe to check untrusted code, periodt. only a few system calls are blocked, so it is not a security boundary, fr fr. no cap. 🙈

👑 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 bestie, it may be used by others too 💖

and that's the whole vibe, bestie 🎀 this page comes from the General Commands Manual, for maybe(1), dated Feb 8, 2016. mwah 💋