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I'm not sure what you mean by "view." Devices exist as file nodes to facilitate block operations on them. The data on them is likely still in a binary, and thus non-readable, format. The device nodes are all located under /dev.

There are also character devices, which input in characters (maybe not human readable). If you want to view the device as it updates, use "tail -f".

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