How can I know which of the /dev/input/eventX (X=0..7) have the Linux input stream?

Question

I am trying to capture linux keyboard/mouse input, and I am reading events from like /dev/input/event2. But it seems the input are sometimes directed to /dev/

Answer 1

Just stumbled across this -- rather late in the day.

You can find out the names and other attributes of different devices using:

cat /proc/bus/input/devices