linux man page for mknod

MKNOD(1)							   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 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 doc-
       umentation 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 (C) 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 'mknod invocation'

       should give you access to the complete manual.

GNU coreutils 8.5						   February 2011							  MKNOD(1)