'\" t .\" (c) 1993 by Thomas Koenig (ig25@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de) .\" .\" Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this .\" manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are .\" preserved on all copies. .\" .\" Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this .\" manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the .\" entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a .\" permission notice identical to this one .\" .\" Since the Linux kernel and libraries are constantly changing, this .\" manual page may be incorrect or out-of-date. The author(s) assume no .\" responsibility for errors or omissions, or for damages resulting from .\" the use of the information contained herein. The author(s) may not .\" have taken the same level of care in the production of this manual, .\" which is licensed free of charge, as they might when working .\" professionally. .\" .\" Formatted or processed versions of this manual, if unaccompanied by .\" the source, must acknowledge the copyright and authors of this work. .\" License. .\" Modified Sat Jul 24 17:35:15 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) .\" Modified Sun Feb 19 22:02:32 1995 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) .TH SUFFIXES 7 "April 4, 1996" "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME suffixes \- list of file suffixes .SH DESCRIPTION It is customary to mark the contents of a file with the file suffix, which consists of a period, followed by one or more letters. Many standard utilities such as compilers use this to recognize the type of file they are dealing with, and the make(1) utility contains many rules for dealing with files based on suffix type. .PP Following is a list of suffixes which are likely to be found on a Linux system. .PP .TS l | l _ | _ lI | l . Suffix File type ,v Files for RCS (Revision Control System) - backup file .C C++ source code .F FORTRAN source with cpp(1) directives .S Assembler source with cpp(1) directives .Z File compressed using compress(1) .[0-9]+pk TeX font files .[1-9] Manual page for the corresponding section .[1-9][a-z] Manual page for section plus subsection .a static object code library .afm PostScript font metrics .arc ARC archive .arj ARJ archive .asc PGP ASCII-armoured data .awk AWK language program .bak Backup file .bm Bitmap source .c C source .cat Message catalog files .cf configuration file .conf configuration file .config configuration file .cweb Donald Knuth's WEB for C .dat data file .def Modula-2 source for definition modules .def other definition files .diff ASCII File differences .doc documentation file .dvi TeX device independent output .el EMACS lisp source .elc compiled EMACS lisp .eps encapsulated postscript .f FORTRAN source .fas pre-compiled common Lisp .fi FORTRAN include files .gif Graphics Interchange Format .gsf Ghostscript fonts .gz File compressed using gzip(1) .h C or C++ header files .hlp Help file .i C source after preprocessing .icon Bitmap source .image Bitmap source .in Input file for some utility .info Files for the EMACS info browser .jpg JPEG compressed picture format .l lex(1) or flex(1) files .lib Common Lisp library .ln Files for use with lint(1) .lsp Common Lisp source .m4 M4(1) source .mac Macro files for various programs .man Manual page .me Nroff source using the me macro package .mf Metafont (font generator for TeX) source .mm Sources for groff(1) in mm - format .mod Modula-2 source for implementation modules .o object file .old old or backup file .orig Backup (original) version of a file, from patch(1) .out Output file, often executable program (a.out) .p Pascal source .patch File differences from patch(1) .pcf X11 font files (???) .pfa Postscript font definition files, ASCII format .pfb Postscript font definition files, binary format .pgp PGP binary data .pid File to store daemon pid (e.g. crond.pid) .pl Perl script .pr Bitmap source .ps Postscript file .r RATFOR source .rej Patches that patch(1) couldn't apply .rules Rules for something .s Assembler source .sa Stub libraries for a.out shared libraries .sc sc(1) spreadsheed commands .sh sh(1) scripts .shar archive created by the shar(1) utility .so DLL dynamic library .sty LaTeX style files .sym Modula-2 compiled definition modules .tar archive created by the tar(1) utility .tar.Z tar archive compressed with compress(1) .tar.gz tar archive compressed with gzip(1) .taz Tar archive compressed with compress(1) .tex TeX or LaTeX source .texi equivalent to \fI.texinfo\fR .texinfo TeXinfo documentation source .tfm TeX font metrics .tgz Tar archive compressed with gzip(1) .tmpl Template files .txt Text file .uue Binary file encoded with uuencode(1) .web Donald Knuth's WEB .y yacc(1) or bison(1) (parser generator) files .z File compressed using pack(1) (or an old gzip(1)) .zoo ZOO archive ~ EMACS or patch backup file rc Startup file, e.g. .newsrc .TE .SH "CONFORMS TO" General UNIX conventions .SH BUGS This list is not exhaustive. .SH "SEE ALSO" .BR file "(1), " make (1)