intro(4)

intro4

Introduction to special files

Overview

Section 4 of the manual describes special files (devices).

Files

/dev/* — device files

Notes

Authors and copyright conditions

Look at the header of the manual page source for the author(s) and copyright conditions. Note that these can be different from page to page!

Releases

19 releases since Debian 1.1 (Buzz); the text changed 13 times.

  1. 1.1–2.1
  2. 2.2
  3. 3.0–3.1
  4. 4.0
  5. 5.0
  6. 6.0
  7. 7
  8. 8
  9. 9
  10. 10
  11. 11
  12. 12
  13. 13
  14. Arch

From man-pages 6.19-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.