.\" Copyright, The contributors to the Linux man-pages project .\" .\" SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later .\" .TH intro 4 2025-05-06 "Linux man-pages 6.14" .SH NAME intro \- introduction to special files .SH DESCRIPTION Section 4 of the manual describes special files (devices). .SH FILES /dev/* \[em] device files .SH NOTES .SS 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! .SH SEE ALSO .BR mknod (1), .BR mknod (2), .BR standards (7)