Man page or keyword search:   man All Sections 1 - General Commands 2 - System Calls 3 - Subroutines, Functions 4 - Special Files 5 - File Formats 6 - Games and Screensavers 7 - Macros and Conventions 8 - Maintenence Commands 9 - Kernel Interface New Commands Server 4.4BSD AIX Alpinelinux Archlinux Aros BSDOS BSDi Bifrost CentOS Cygwin Darwin Debian DigitalUNIX DragonFly ElementaryOS Fedora FreeBSD Gentoo GhostBSD HP-UX Haiku Hurd IRIX Inferno JazzOS Kali Knoppix LinuxMint MacOSX Mageia Mandriva Manjaro Minix MirBSD NeXTSTEP NetBSD OPENSTEP OSF1 OpenBSD OpenDarwin OpenIndiana OpenMandriva OpenServer OpenSuSE OpenVMS Oracle PC-BSD Peanut Pidora Plan9 QNX Raspbian RedHat Scientific Slackware SmartOS Solaris SuSE SunOS Syllable Tru64 UNIXv7 Ubuntu Ultrix UnixWare Xenix YellowDog aLinux   6208 pages apropos Keyword Search (all sections) Output format html ascii pdf view pdf save postscript

MAKEDEV(8)							    MAKEDEV(8)

NAME
       MAKEDEV, DESCRIBE - make/describe device files

SYNOPSIS
       MAKEDEV [-n] key ...
       DESCRIBE [device] ...

DESCRIPTION
       MAKEDEV	may  be	 used to create the device files normally found in the
       /dev directory.	The key arguments are simply the names of the  devices
       you  want.   MAKEDEV  knows about all supported devices and will create
       them in the current directory with the proper owner and mode.  For many
       devices	MAKEDEV will not only create the device you want, but also the
       devices related to it that you will  probably  want  too.   Naming  one
       floppy  device  will  create  all floppy devices for the same drive for
       instance.

       Call MAKEDEV without arguments to see a list of	keys  that  it	under‐
       stands.	 Then  use the -n flag to make the script echo the commands it
       will execute the next time when you call it without that flag.

       The special key std must be given alone to MAKEDEV.  This key will cre‐
       ate all standard devices.

       The  command  DESCRIBE  will give you a one-line description of a given
       device.	It will by default list all devices in /dev.

SEE ALSO
       dev(4), mknod(8).

BUGS
       MAKEDEV's eagerness to create devices  may  cause  many	"File  exists"
       errors from mknod.

AUTHOR
       Kees J. Bot (kjb@cs.vu.nl)

								    MAKEDEV(8)

Vote for polarhome