# device file

> interface to a device driver that appears in a file system as if it were an ordinary file; e.g. /dev/* in Unix-like systems; CON, PRN, NUL in DOS/Windows

**Wikidata**: [Q14679](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14679)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_file)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/device-file


## References

1. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
2. GNU.org
3. BabelNet
4. [OpenAlex](https://docs.openalex.org/download-snapshot/snapshot-data-format)