POKE(1)

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version 4.3 · 6 versions
, in alpine 3.24, arch rolling, debian trixie, fedora 43, fedora 44, nixos 26.05, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

🦋 POKE(1) — User Commands, bestie edition

okay so this is the manual page for poke, from the User Commands section of the manual, and honestly? it's giving main character energy. let's get into it 💅

✨ NAME ✨

poke — The GNU extensible binary editor 🌸

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

poke [OPTION]... [FILE]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

Interactive editor for binary files. periodt. that's the whole vibe, and it's iconic.

  • -l, --load=FILE — load the given pickle at startup 🥒
  • -L FILE — load the given pickle and then just... exit. no notes, in and out 🫶

🎀 Commanding poke from the command line:

  • -c, --command=CMD — execute the given command
  • -s, --source=FILE — execute commands from FILE

🎀 Styling text output:

  • --color=(yes|no|auto|html|test) — emit styled output ✨ (yes babe, even html, even test)
  • --style=STYLE_FILE — style file to use when styling
  • --style-dark — use default style for dark backgrounds 🌙
  • --style-bright — use default style for bright backgrounds ☀️
  • -q, --no-init-file — do not load an init file. it said "not today" 🙈
  • --no-auto-map — disable auto-map
  • --no-hserver — do not run the hyperlinks server
  • --no-stdtypes — do not define standard types
  • --quiet — be as terse as possible. lowkey. minimal. 💀
  • --help — print a help message and exit
  • --version — show version and exit

The following environment variables, if set, are used by poke — like, it literally reads these, bestie:

  • POKE_LOAD_PATH — List of file paths separated by colon characters (:) which is prepended to the load_path when poke starts 🌈

💜 REPORTING BUGS 💜

Report bugs in the bug tracker at

<https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/describecomponents.cgi?product=poke>

or by email to <poke-devel@gnu.org>. (found a bug? tell them, don't suffer in silence, we don't do that here 🫶)

GNU poke home page: <http://www.jemarch.net/poke.html> General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>

Copyright © 2024 The poke authors. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later.

This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.

There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. 😭 like literally none, bestie, read it and weep

Powered by Jitter 0.7.312. Perpetrated by Jose E. Marchesi. (perpetrated!! that's such a word choice, obsessed 🔥)

🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

The full documentation for poke is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and poke programs are properly installed at your site, the command

info poke

should give you access to the complete manual. iykyk 📖✨

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this was GNU poke 4.2-maint-35-gc5886-mo... from March 2025, page POKE(1) — slay, ate, no crumbs left 💖🧚⭐

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