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17 .TH SUFFIXES 7 (date) "Linux man-pages (unreleased)"
18 .SH NAME
19 suffixes \- list of file suffixes
20 .SH DESCRIPTION
21 It is customary to indicate the contents of a file with the file suffix,
22 which (typically) consists of a period, followed by one or more letters.
23 Many standard utilities, such as compilers, use this to recognize the type of
24 file they are dealing with.
25 The
26 .BR make (1)
27 utility is driven by rules based on file suffix.
28 .P
29 Following is a list of suffixes which are likely to be found on a
30 Linux system.
31 .P
32 .TS
33 l | l
34 _ | _
35 lI | l .
36 Suffix File type
37 \&,v files for RCS (Revision Control System)
38 \&- backup file
39 \&.C C++ source code, equivalent to \fI.cc\fP
40 \&.F Fortran source with \fBcpp\fP(1) directives
41 \& or file compressed using freeze
42 \&.S assembler source with \fBcpp\fP(1) directives
43 \&.Y file compressed using yabba
44 \&.Z file compressed using \fBcompress\fP(1)
45 \&.[0\-9]+gf TeX generic font files
46 \&.[0\-9]+pk TeX packed font files
47 \&.[1\-9] manual page for the corresponding section
48 \&.[1\-9][a-z] manual page for section plus subsection
49 \&.a static object code library
50 \&.ad X application default resource file
51 \&.ada Ada source (may be body, spec, or combination)
52 \&.adb Ada body source
53 \&.ads Ada spec source
54 \&.afm PostScript font metrics
55 \&.al Perl autoload file
56 \&.am \fBautomake\fP(1) input file
57 \&.arc \fBarc\fP(1) archive
58 \&.arj \fBarj\fP(1) archive
59 \&.asc PGP ASCII-armored data
60 \&.asm (GNU) assembler source file
61 \&.au Audio sound file
62 \&.aux LaTeX auxiliary file
63 \&.avi (msvideo) movie
64 \&.awk AWK language program
65 \&.b LILO boot loader image
66 \&.bak backup file
67 \&.bash \fBbash\fP(1) shell script
68 \&.bb basic block list data produced by
69 \& gcc \-ftest\-coverage
70 \&.bbg basic block graph data produced by
71 \& gcc \-ftest\-coverage
72 \&.bbl BibTeX output
73 \&.bdf X font file
74 \&.bib TeX bibliographic database, BibTeX input
75 \&.bm bitmap source
76 \&.bmp bitmap
77 \&.bz2 file compressed using \fBbzip2\fP(1)
78 \&.c C source
79 \&.cat message catalog files
80 \&.cc C++ source
81 \&.cf configuration file
82 \&.cfg configuration file
83 \&.cgi WWW content generating script or program
84 \&.cls LaTeX Class definition
85 \&.class Java compiled byte-code
86 \&.conf configuration file
87 \&.config configuration file
88 \&.cpp equivalent to \fI.cc\fR
89 \&.csh \fBcsh\fP(1) shell script
90 \&.cxx equivalent to \fI.cc\fR
91 \&.dat data file
92 \&.deb Debian software package
93 \&.def Modula-2 source for definition modules
94 \&.def other definition files
95 \&.desc initial part of mail message unpacked with
96 \& \fBmunpack\fP(1)
97 \&.diff file differences (\fBdiff\fP(1) command output)
98 \&.dir dbm data base directory file
99 \&.doc documentation file
100 \&.dsc Debian Source Control (source package)
101 \&.dtx LaTeX package source file
102 \&.dvi TeX's device independent output
103 \&.el Emacs-Lisp source
104 \&.elc compiled Emacs-Lisp source
105 \&.eps encapsulated PostScript
106 \&.exp Expect source code
107 \&.f Fortran source
108 \&.f77 Fortran 77 source
109 \&.f90 Fortran 90 source
110 \&.fas precompiled Common-Lisp
111 \&.fi Fortran include files
112 \&.fig FIG image file (used by \fBxfig\fP(1))
113 \&.fmt TeX format file
114 \&.gif Compuserve Graphics Image File format
115 \&.gmo GNU format message catalog
116 \&.gsf Ghostscript fonts
117 \&.gz file compressed using \fBgzip\fP(1)
118 \&.h C or C++ header files
119 \&.help help file
120 \&.hf equivalent to \fI.help\fP
121 \&.hlp equivalent to \fI.help\fP
122 \&.htm poor man's \fI.html\fP
123 \&.html HTML document used with the World Wide Web
124 \&.hqx 7-bit encoded Macintosh file
125 \&.i C source after preprocessing
126 \&.icon bitmap source
127 \&.idx reference or datum-index file for hypertext
128 \& or database system
129 \&.image bitmap source
130 \&.in configuration template, especially for GNU Autoconf
131 \&.info files for the Emacs info browser
132 \&.info-[0\-9]+ split info files
133 \&.ins LaTeX package install file for docstrip
134 \&.itcl itcl source code;
135 \& itcl ([incr Tcl]) is an OO extension of tcl
136 \&.java a Java source file
137 \&.jpeg Joint Photographic Experts Group format
138 \&.jpg poor man's \fI.jpeg\fP
139 \&.js JavaScript source code
140 \&.jsx JSX (JavaScript XML-like extension) source code
141 \&.kmap \fBlyx\fP(1) keymap
142 \&.l equivalent to \fI.lex\fP or \fI.lisp\fP
143 \&.lex \fBlex\fP(1) or \fBflex\fP(1) files
144 \&.lha lharc archive
145 \&.lib Common-Lisp library
146 \&.lisp Lisp source
147 \&.ln files for use with \fBlint\fP(1)
148 \&.log log file, in particular produced by TeX
149 \&.lsm Linux Software Map entry
150 \&.lsp Common-Lisp source
151 \&.lzh lharc archive
152 \&.m Objective-C source code
153 \&.m4 \fBm4\fP(1) source
154 \&.mac macro files for various programs
155 \&.man manual page (usually source rather than formatted)
156 \&.map map files for various programs
157 \&.me Nroff source using the me macro package
158 \&.mf Metafont (font generator for TeX) source
159 \&.mgp MagicPoint file
160 \&.mm sources for \fBgroff\fP(1) in mm - format
161 \&.mo Message catalog binary file
162 \&.mod Modula-2 source for implementation modules
163 \&.mov (quicktime) movie
164 \&.mp Metapost source
165 \&.mp2 MPEG Layer 2 (audio) file
166 \&.mp3 MPEG Layer 3 (audio) file
167 \&.mpeg movie file
168 \&.o object file
169 \&.old old or backup file
170 \&.orig backup (original) version of a file, from \fBpatch\fP(1)
171 \&.out output file, often executable program (a.out)
172 \&.p Pascal source
173 \&.pag dbm data base data file
174 \&.patch file differences for \fBpatch\fP(1)
175 \&.pbm portable bitmap format
176 \&.pcf X11 font files
177 \&.pdf Adobe Portable Data Format
178 \& (use Acrobat/\fBacroread\fP or \fBxpdf\fP)
179 \&.perl Perl source (see .ph, .pl, and .pm)
180 \&.pfa PostScript font definition files, ASCII format
181 \&.pfb PostScript font definition files, binary format
182 \&.pgm portable greymap format
183 \&.pgp PGP binary data
184 \&.ph Perl header file
185 \&.php PHP program file
186 \&.php3 PHP3 program file
187 \&.pid File to store daemon PID (e.g., crond.pid)
188 \&.pl TeX property list file or Perl library file
189 \&.pm Perl module
190 \&.png Portable Network Graphics file
191 \&.po Message catalog source
192 \&.pod \fBperldoc\fP(1) file
193 \&.ppm portable pixmap format
194 \&.pr bitmap source
195 \&.ps PostScript file
196 \&.py Python source
197 \&.pyc compiled python
198 \&.qt quicktime movie
199 \&.r RATFOR source (obsolete)
200 \&.rej patches that \fBpatch\fP(1) couldn't apply
201 \&.rpm RPM software package
202 \&.rtf Rich Text Format file
203 \&.rules rules for something
204 \&.s assembler source
205 \&.sa stub libraries for a.out shared libraries
206 \&.sc \fBsc\fP(1) spreadsheet commands
207 \&.scm Scheme source code
208 \&.sed sed source file
209 \&.sgml SGML source file
210 \&.sh \fBsh\fP(1) scripts
211 \&.shar archive created by the \fBshar\fP(1) utility
212 \&.shtml HTML using Server Side Includes
213 \&.so Shared library or dynamically loadable object
214 \&.sql SQL source
215 \&.sqml SQML schema or query program
216 \&.sty LaTeX style files
217 \&.sym Modula-2 compiled definition modules
218 \&.tar archive created by the \fBtar\fP(1) utility
219 \&.tar.Z tar(1) archive compressed with \fBcompress\fP(1)
220 \&.tar.bz2 tar(1) archive compressed with \fBbzip2\fP(1)
221 \&.tar.gz tar(1) archive compressed with \fBgzip\fP(1)
222 \&.taz tar(1) archive compressed with \fBcompress\fP(1)
223 \&.tcl tcl source code
224 \&.tex TeX or LaTeX source
225 \&.texi equivalent to \fI.texinfo\fP
226 \&.texinfo Texinfo documentation source
227 \&.text text file
228 \&.tfm TeX font metric file
229 \&.tgz tar archive compressed with \fBgzip\fP(1)
230 \&.tif poor man's \fI.tiff\fP
231 \&.tiff Tagged Image File Format
232 \&.tk tcl/tk script
233 \&.tmp temporary file
234 \&.tmpl template files
235 \&.ts TypeScript source code
236 \&.tsx TypeScript with JSX source code (\fI.ts\fP + \fI.jsx\fP)
237 \&.txt equivalent to \fI.text\fP
238 \&.uu equivalent to \fI.uue\fP
239 \&.uue binary file encoded with \fBuuencode\fP(1)
240 \&.vf TeX virtual font file
241 \&.vpl TeX virtual property list file
242 \&.w Silvio Levi's CWEB
243 \&.wav wave sound file
244 \&.web Donald Knuth's WEB
245 \&.wml Source file for Web Meta Language
246 \&.xbm X11 bitmap source
247 \&.xcf GIMP graphic
248 \&.xml eXtended Markup Language file
249 \&.xpm X11 pixmap source
250 \&.xs Perl xsub file produced by h2xs
251 \&.xsl XSL stylesheet
252 \&.y \fByacc\fP(1) or \fBbison\fP(1) (parser generator) files
253 \&.z File compressed using \fBpack\fP(1) (or an old \fBgzip\fP(1))
254 \&.zip \fBzip\fP(1) archive
255 \&.zoo \fBzoo\fP(1) archive
256 \&\[ti] Emacs or \fBpatch\fP(1) backup file
257 \&rc startup (`run control') file, e.g., \fI.newsrc\fP
258 .TE
259 .SH STANDARDS
260 General UNIX conventions.
261 .SH BUGS
262 This list is not exhaustive.
263 .SH SEE ALSO
264 .BR file (1),
265 .BR make (1)