6 Special Linux Device Files And Their Uses

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The Linux filesystem is a unique and complex beast. This decades old system contains many hidden gems that you could spend a lifetime discovering. There are also a lot of unique idiosyncrasies to how things function. Luckily for us, these examples won’t take years to learn.

Linux has the concept of device files, this means that every “device” on the system is also a file. You can do…