pseudofile

See also: pseudo-file

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Etymology

From pseudo- +‎ file.

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  • Audio (US):(file)

Noun

pseudofile (plural pseudofiles)

  1. (computing) A file that does not represent a file on the underlying file system on disk, but instead is automatically generated to represent some other object in the form of a file (for example '/proc/cpuinfo' in Linux).

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