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Categories: Unix file system technology, Pseudo file systems supported by the Linux kernel, 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