Show commands without executing them

Question

I often interactively loop over e.g. my files and want to perform a specific operation on all of them, let\'s say I\'d like to rename all files:

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Answer 1

There is a github package called maybe, here's an example:

$ maybe rm file
> maybe has prevented rm file from performing 1 file system operations:
>
> delete /home/user/file
>
> Do you want to rerun rm file and permit these operations? [y/N]