Device files

[Sanjiv Sharma_1]

Can I have a command or simple script which checks that the Device files are located only in the /dev directory or in a subdirectory
under /dev?

OS = HPUX 11.11

Thanks in advance.

[A. Clay Stephenson]

This will find all the block special or character special device nodes on your box:

find / \( -type b -o -type c \) -print

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

This is a brutal search, because you will search all of your filesystems:

# find / \( -type b -o -type c \) -exec ls -l {} \+

Regards!

...JRF...

[A. Clay Stephenson · Accepted solution]

... and in keeping with standard UNIX policy that no news is good news you can add this test:

find / \( \( -type b -o -type c \) -a ! -path '/dev/*' \) -print

This will list all block and character device files that are not in /dev.

[Babu A]

Hi Sanjiv,

# find /dev \( -type b -o -type c \)

the above command will give you the list of device files under /dev and subdirectory under /dev.

Thanks,
Babu

[Sanjiv Sharma_1]

No news is good news seems to be the best solution. Thanks