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Almost all UNIX operating systems have voluminous documentation known as manual pages. Every page is a document. If one wants to read a page then the command man at a shell prompt will show the manual, for example, "man ftp". Pages are referred by using the notation "name(manual-section)", for example time(1).

Man Page :: Unix Man Pages - intro

Browse Linux man pages by name. Choose the first letter of the name of the Linux command, function, or file you are interested in:

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NAME

intro - Introduction to special files

DESCRIPTION

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

FILES

/dev/* (em 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!