Upon invocation poke will read and execute the commands of an initialization file, if it exists: the pokerc file. There are two ways to keep an initialization file.
The simple, traditional way is to have a file named .pokerc in your home directory. GNU poke will look for a file like that first.
If .pokerc is not found your home directory, poke looks in the locations specified by the XDG Base Directory Specification9 for a file named poke/pokerc.conf. For example, you could use ~/.config/poke/pokerc.conf.
Which way is better depends on your specific requirements and taste.
GNU poke can be insturcted to not read the initialization file by
passing -q or --no-init-file in the command line.
Example of initialization file:
# My poke configuration. .set endian host .set obase 16 .set pretty-print yes pk_dump_cluster_by = 4 .load ~/.poke.d/mypickles.pk