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MKNOD
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: April 2010
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NAME
mknod - make block or character special files
SYNOPSIS
mknod
[OPTION]... NAME TYPE [MAJOR MINOR]
DESCRIPTION
Create the special file NAME of the given TYPE.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
- -m, --mode=MODE
-
set file permission bits to MODE, not a=rw - umask
- -Z, --context=CTX
-
set the SELinux security context of NAME to CTX
- --help
-
display this help and exit
- --version
-
output version information and exit
Both MAJOR and MINOR must be specified when TYPE is b, c, or u, and they
must be omitted when TYPE is p. If MAJOR or MINOR begins with 0x or 0X,
it is interpreted as hexadecimal; otherwise, if it begins with 0, as octal;
otherwise, as decimal. TYPE may be:
- b
-
create a block (buffered) special file
- c, u
-
create a character (unbuffered) special file
- p
-
create a FIFO
NOTE: your shell may have its own version of mknod, which usually supersedes
the version described here. Please refer to your shell's documentation
for details about the options it supports.
AUTHOR
Written by David MacKenzie.
REPORTING BUGS
Report mknod bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
Report mknod translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
mknod(2)
The full documentation for
mknod
is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the
info
and
mknod
programs are properly installed at your site, the command
-
info coreutils aqmknod invocationaq
should give you access to the complete manual.
Index
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