mknod
(1g)
Name
mknod - make block or character special files
Synopsis
mknod [OPTION]... NAME TYPE [MAJOR MINOR]
Description
User Commands MKNOD(1)
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 hexadeci-
mal; 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 [email protected]
GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/core-
utils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/geth-
elp/>
Report mknod translation bugs to <http://translationpro-
ject.org/team/>
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User Commands MKNOD(1)
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2012 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 redis-
tribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted
by law.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following
attributes:
+---------------+--------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+--------------------+
|Availability | file/gnu-coreutils |
+---------------+--------------------+
|Stability | Uncommitted |
+---------------+--------------------+
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 'mknod invocation'
should give you access to the complete manual.
NOTES
This software was built from source available at
https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland. The original
community source was downloaded from
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.16.tar.xz
Further information about this software can be found on the
open source community website at http://www.gnu.org/soft-
ware/coreutils/.
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