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  38 .TH SUFFIXES 7  2000-11-16 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
  39 .SH NAME
  40 suffixes \- list of file suffixes
  41 .SH DESCRIPTION
  42 It is customary to indicate the contents of a file with the file suffix,
  43 which consists of a period, followed by one or more letters.
  44 Many standard utilities, such as compilers, use this to recognize the type of
  45 file they are dealing with.
  46 The
  47 .BR make (1)
  48 utility is driven by rules based on file suffix.
  49 .PP
  50 Following is a list of suffixes which are likely to be found on a
  51 Linux system.
  52 .PP
  53 .TS
  54 l | l
  55 _ | _
  56 lI |  l .
  57 Suffix  File type
  58  ,v     files for RCS (Revision Control System)
  59  -      backup file
  60  .C     C++ source code, equivalent to \fI.cc\fP
  61  .F     Fortran source with \fBcpp\fP(1) directives
  62         or file compressed using freeze
  63  .S     assembler source with \fBcpp\fP(1) directives
  64  .Y     file compressed using yabba
  65  .Z     file compressed using \fBcompress\fP(1)
  66  .[0-9]+gf      TeX generic font files
  67  .[0-9]+pk      TeX packed font files
  68  .[1-9] manual page for the corresponding section
  69  .[1-9][a-z]    manual page for section plus subsection
  70  .a     static object code library
  71  .ad    X application default resource file
  72  .ada   Ada source (may be body, spec, or combination)
  73  .adb   Ada body source
  74  .ads   Ada spec source
  75  .afm   PostScript font metrics
  76  .al    Perl autoload file
  77  .am    \fBautomake\fP(1) input file
  78  .arc   \fBarc\fP(1) archive
  79  .arj   \fBarj\fP(1) archive
  80  .asc   PGP ASCII-armored data
  81  .asm   (GNU) assembler source file
  82  .au    Audio sound file
  83  .aux   LaTeX auxiliary file
  84  .avi   (msvideo) movie
  85  .awk   AWK language program
  86  .b     LILO boot loader image
  87  .bak   backup file
  88  .bash  \fBbash\fP(1) shell script
  89  .bb    basic block list data produced by
  90         gcc \-ftest\-coverage
  91  .bbg   basic block graph data produced by
  92         gcc \-ftest\-coverage
  93  .bbl   BibTeX output
  94  .bdf   X font file
  95  .bib   TeX bibliographic database, BibTeX input
  96  .bm    bitmap source
  97  .bmp   bitmap
  98  .bz2   file compressed using \fBbzip2\fP(1)
  99  .c     C source
 100  .cat   message catalog files
 101  .cc    C++ source
 102  .cf    configuration file
 103  .cfg   configuration file
 104  .cgi   WWW content generating script or program
 105  .cls   LaTeX Class definition
 106  .class Java compiled byte-code
 107  .conf  configuration file
 108  .config        configuration file
 109  .cpp   equivalent to \fI.cc\fR
 110  .csh   \fBcsh\fP(1) shell script
 111  .cxx   equivalent to \fI.cc\fR
 112  .dat   data file
 113  .deb   Debian software package
 114  .def   Modula-2 source for definition modules
 115  .def   other definition files
 116  .desc  initial part of mail message unpacked with
 117         \fBmunpack\fP(1)
 118  .diff  file differences (\fBdiff\fP(1) command output)
 119  .dir   dbm data base directory file
 120  .doc   documentation file
 121  .dsc   Debian Source Control (source package)
 122  .dtx   LaTeX package source file
 123  .dvi   TeX's device independent output
 124  .el    Emacs-Lisp source
 125  .elc   compiled Emacs-Lisp source
 126  .eps   encapsulated PostScript
 127  .exp   Expect source code
 128  .f     Fortran source
 129  .f77   Fortran 77 source
 130  .f90   Fortran 90 source
 131  .fas   pre-compiled Common-Lisp
 132  .fi    Fortran include files
 133  .fig   FIG image file (used by \fBxfig\fP(1))
 134  .fmt   TeX format file
 135  .gif   Compuserve Graphics Image File format
 136  .gmo   GNU format message catalog
 137  .gsf   Ghostscript fonts
 138  .gz    file compressed using \fBgzip\fP(1)
 139  .h     C or C++ header files
 140  .help  help file
 141  .hf    equivalent to \fI.help\fP
 142  .hlp   equivalent to \fI.help\fP
 143  .htm   poor man's \fI.html\fP
 144  .html  HTML document used with the World Wide Web
 145  .hqx   7-bit encoded Macintosh file
 146  .i     C source after preprocessing
 147  .icon  bitmap source
 148  .idx   reference or datum-index file for hypertext
 149         or database system
 150  .image bitmap source
 151  .in    configuration template, especially for GNU Autoconf
 152  .info  files for the Emacs info browser
 153  .info-[0-9]+   split info files
 154  .ins   LaTeX package install file for docstrip
 155  .itcl  itcl source code;
 156         itcl ([incr Tcl]) is an OO extension of tcl
 157  .java  a Java source file
 158  .jpeg  Joint Photographic Experts Group format
 159  .jpg   poor man's \fI.jpeg\fP
 160  .kmap  \fBlyx\fP(1) keymap
 161  .l     equivalent to \fI.lex\fP or \fI.lisp\fP
 162  .lex   \fBlex\fP(1) or \fBflex\fP(1) files
 163  .lha   lharc archive
 164  .lib   Common-Lisp library
 165  .lisp  Lisp source
 166  .ln    files for use with \fBlint\fP(1)
 167  .log   log file, in particular produced by TeX
 168  .lsm   Linux Software Map entry
 169  .lsp   Common-Lisp source
 170  .lzh   lharc archive
 171  .m     Objective-C source code
 172  .m4    \fBm4\fP(1) source
 173  .mac   macro files for various programs
 174  .man   manual page (usually source rather than formatted)
 175  .map   map files for various programs
 176  .me    Nroff source using the me macro package
 177  .mf    Metafont (font generator for TeX) source
 178  .mgp   MagicPoint file
 179  .mm    sources for \fBgroff\fP(1) in mm - format
 180  .mo    Message catalog binary file
 181  .mod   Modula-2 source for implementation modules
 182  .mov   (quicktime) movie
 183  .mp    Metapost source
 184  .mp2   MPEG Layer 2 (audio) file
 185  .mp3   MPEG Layer 3 (audio) file
 186  .mpeg  movie file
 187  .o     object file
 188  .old   old or backup file
 189  .orig  backup (original) version of a file, from \fBpatch\fP(1)
 190  .out   output file, often executable program (a.out)
 191  .p     Pascal source
 192  .pag   dbm data base data file
 193  .patch file differences for \fBpatch\fP(1)
 194  .pbm   portable bitmap format
 195  .pcf   X11 font files
 196  .pdf   Adobe Portable Data Format
 197         (use Acrobat/\fBacroread\fP or \fBxpdf\fP)
 198  .perl  Perl source (see .ph, .pl and .pm)
 199  .pfa   PostScript font definition files, ASCII format
 200  .pfb   PostScript font definition files, binary format
 201  .pgm   portable greymap format
 202  .pgp   PGP binary data
 203  .ph    Perl header file
 204  .php   PHP program file
 205  .php3  PHP3 program file
 206  .pid   File to store daemon PID (e.g., crond.pid)
 207  .pl    TeX property list file or Perl library file
 208  .pm    Perl module
 209  .png   Portable Network Graphics file
 210  .po    Message catalog source
 211  .pod   \fBperldoc\fP(1) file
 212  .ppm   portable pixmap format
 213  .pr    bitmap source
 214  .ps    PostScript file
 215  .py    Python source
 216  .pyc   compiled python
 217  .qt    quicktime movie
 218  .r     RATFOR source (obsolete)
 219  .rej   patches that \fBpatch\fP(1) couldn't apply
 220  .rpm   RedHat software package
 221  .rtf   Rich Text Format file
 222  .rules rules for something
 223  .s     assembler source
 224  .sa    stub libraries for a.out shared libraries
 225  .sc    \fBsc\fP(1) spreadsheet commands
 226  .scm   Scheme source code
 227  .sed   sed source file
 228  .sgml  SGML source file
 229  .sh    \fBsh\fP(1) scripts
 230  .shar  archive created by the \fBshar\fP(1) utility
 231  .so    Shared library or dynamically loadable object
 232  .sql   SQL source
 233  .sqml  SQML schema or query program
 234  .sty   LaTeX style files
 235  .sym   Modula-2 compiled definition modules
 236  .tar   archive created by the \fBtar\fP(1) utility
 237  .tar.Z tar(1) archive compressed with \fBcompress\fP(1)
 238  .tar.bz2       tar(1) archive compressed with \fBbzip2\fP(1)
 239  .tar.gz        tar(1) archive compressed with \fBgzip\fP(1)
 240  .taz   tar(1) archive compressed with \fBcompress\fP(1)
 241  .tcl   tcl source code
 242  .tex   TeX or LaTeX source
 243  .texi  equivalent to \fI.texinfo\fP
 244  .texinfo       Texinfo documentation source
 245  .text  text file
 246  .tfm   TeX font metric file
 247  .tgz   tar archive compressed with \fBgzip\fP(1)
 248  .tif   poor man's \fI.tiff\fP
 249  .tiff  Tagged Image File Format
 250  .tk    tcl/tk script
 251  .tmp   temporary file
 252  .tmpl  template files
 253  .txt   equivalent to \fI.text\fP
 254  .uu    equivalent to \fI.uue\fP
 255  .uue   binary file encoded with \fBuuencode\fP(1)
 256  .vf    TeX virtual font file
 257  .vpl   TeX virtual property list file
 258  .w     Silvio Levi's CWEB
 259  .wav   wave sound file
 260  .web   Donald Knuth's WEB
 261  .wml   Source file for Web Meta Language
 262  .xbm   X11 bitmap source
 263  .xcf   GIMP graphic
 264  .xml   eXtended Markup Language file
 265  .xsl   XSL stylesheet
 266  .xpm   X11 pixmap source
 267  .xs    Perl xsub file produced by h2xs
 268  .y     \fByacc\fP(1) or \fBbison\fP(1) (parser generator) files
 269  .z     File compressed using \fBpack\fP(1) (or an old \fBgzip\fP(1))
 270  .zip   \fBzip\fP(1) archive
 271  .zoo   \fBzoo\fP(1) archive
 272  ~      Emacs or \fBpatch\fP(1) backup file
 273  rc     startup (`run control') file, e.g., \fI.newsrc\fP
 274 .TE
 275 .SH "CONFORMING TO"
 276 General UNIX conventions.
 277 .SH BUGS
 278 This list is not exhaustive.
 279 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 280 .BR file (1),
 281 .BR make (1)