POKED(1)

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version 4.3 · 3 versions
, in alpine 3.24, arch rolling, debian trixie, fedora 43, fedora 44, nixos 26.05, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 POKED(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the User Commands section of the manual, and today's main character is poked — the poke daemon. yes, that poke. the binary-editing one. she's serving daemon energy and she's iconic for it. let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

poked — The poke daemon

like. that's the whole name. short, sweet, mysterious. it's giving mysterious girl who doesn't text back but who can hex-edit your entire filesystem. 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

poked [OPTION]...

yep that's it. you just run her and optionally hand her some OPTIONs. no positional args, no drama, no chaos. just vibes and flags. 🦋

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

poked is the daemonized poke interactive editor for binary files. so like — poke, but running in the background as a daemon. she's the quiet friend who's always there, always listening (on a socket, specifically), and ready to let you poke at binary files interactively. main character energy, but make it detached from your terminal. 😌

here's the option lineup, bestie — every single one, no skips:

the flags, and yes you need all of them 💖

  • -h, --help — prints a help message and then exits. she tells you what's up and dips immediately. queen behavior. 👑
  • -v, --version — shows the version and exits. quick little flex, then gone. ✨
  • -d, --debug — be more verbose during the execution. so when she's doing her thing she'll narrate. not me turning this on just to hear her talk 🙈
  • -S, --socket-path=PATH — path of the unix domain socket to listen on. this is literally where she's listening, bestie. it's her little hangout spot. PATH is the placeholder, you fill it in with the actual path. no cap. 🔥

😭 REPORTING BUGS 😭

found a bug? do NOT suffer in silence, fr fr. report it in the bug tracker at:

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

or by email to:

poke-devel@gnu.org

more links for your bookmarks, bestie:

Copyright © 2023 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... none. zero. don't come for her if something breaks, bestie, she warned you 💀

and that's the whole page!! every flag, every link, every legal line, all of it. you're welcome. 💖

this has been GNU poke 4.2-maint-35-gc5886-mo..., dated March 2025 — slay, periodt, go poke some binaries ✨🦋🌸

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