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