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