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Inspect, control, and manipulate a command's effects before modifying your live system.

11 mentions on Hacker News by 11 people: 3 stories, 8 comments · first 2023-06-23 · latest 2026-10-21

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  1. …in a mirror of your current system and then inspect/apply/discard/++ any of its effects. [1]: https://github.com/binpash/try
  2. …#2 to me, I also want observability as to what the agent changed. You could potentially combine https://github.com/binpash/try with bubblewrap (I'm not sure how well they compose and as the docs say it isn't a full sandbox). The good (and…
    comment by dgl · 2026-02-03 · in Sandboxing AI Agents in Linux
  3. One option is https://github.com/binpash/try It is Linux-only, though.
  4. …overlayfs in order to be able to see and accept or reject changes to your filesystem from a command https://github.com/binpash/try
    comment by foobarqux · 2024-02-06 · in Command line interface guidelines (2021)
  5. …look at “try”, which will allow you to inspect the effects before running it against a live system: https://github.com/binpash/try
  6. …in a filesystem snapshot; super neat for seeing what changes a process might make to your system. https://github.com/binpash/try was a popular submission a couple days ago, & this builds in a similar capability to the os. RestartSteps= and…
  7. …as a new layer - that's what the command is supposed to add to the running system. Pure genius. See https://github.com/binpash/try/blob/b2df6b650cb2b58951563174...
  8. Could be related to https://github.com/binpash/try/issues/38 Could you see if the 'mount-fix' branch works?
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    Try: run a command and inspect its effects before changing your live system
    story by espressoRunner · 2023-06-24 · 182 comments
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    try: Run commands and inspect their impact before changing your live system
    story by chungy · 2023-06-24 · 0 comments
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    story by todsacerdoti · 2023-06-23 · 0 comments