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