poke - Man Page

The GNU extensible binary editor

Synopsis

poke [OPTION]... [FILE]

Description

Interactive editor for binary files.

-l,  --load=FILE

load the given pickle at startup

-L FILE

load the given pickle and exit

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

--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

--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

--help

print a help message and exit

--version

show version and exit

The following environment variables, if set, are used by poke:

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>.

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

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.

Info

February 2024 GNU poke 3.90.4-dirty