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Noun Concept
Categories: Unix file system technology, Device file, Interfaces of the Linux kernel, Articles with short description, Special-purpose file systems
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device file  /dev  /dev/  /dev/hda  /dev/scd
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In Unix-like operating systems, a device file or special file is an interface to a device driver that appears in a file system as if it were an ordinary file. Wikipedia
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In Unix-like operating systems, a device file or special file is an interface to a device driver that appears in a file system as if it were an ordinary file. Wikipedia
An interface of a device driver Wikipedia Disambiguation
Interface to a device driver that appears in a file system as if it were an ordinary file; e.g. /dev/* in Unix-like systems; CON, PRN, NUL in DOS/Windows Wikidata
IS A
computer file
PART OF
Unix-like
GNU Core Utilities
HAS KIND
network block device
/dev/full
/dev/zero
/dev/random
NUL:
HAS INSTANCE
/dev/full
/dev/zero
/dev/random
NUL:
DIFFERENT FROM
devicetree
USED BY
GNU Core Utilities
Wikipedia
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device file
Wikidata
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device file
Wikipedia Redirections
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/dev, /dev/, /dev/hda, /dev/scd, /dev/scd0, /dev/scd1, /dev/scd2, /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, /dev/sdc, block device, block devices, Block driver, block special, Block special file, character device, character devices, character special file, CON:, Dev filesystem, devfs, device file system, Device name, device node, device special file, Hda1, Hda2, Hda3, Hda4, Hda5, IOCS (Sharp), KBD$, Linux device node, makedev, mknod, POINTER$, pseudo-device, Pseudo device, Scd0, Scd2, Sharp IOCS, special file
Wikidata Alias
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device file system, device node, device special file, special file

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