Common Unix file extensions:
| .asc | ASCII (text) file, often containing ANSI codes |
| .awk | awk script |
| .bak | Backup copy of file |
| .bz2 | bzip2 compressed file |
| .c | C program source code |
| .C | C++ program source code |
| .cc | C++ program source code |
| .cgi | CGI web page program |
| .dat | Data or other information |
| .doc | Explanatory text file |
| .dvi | DVI format document, produced by TeX/LaTeX |
| .el | Emacs Lisp source code |
| .elc | Compiled Emacs Lisp program |
| .f | Fortran source code |
| .f77 | Fortran source code (f77 compiler) |
| .fig | Xfig data file |
| .for | Fortran source code (fort compiler) |
| .gif | GIF image file |
| .gz | gzip compressed file |
| .h | C or C++ program header file |
| .html | Hypertext Markup Language document |
| .info | Emacs TeXinfo file in “info” format |
| .jpg | Graphical image file in JPEG format |
| .log | Logged information |
| .m | Maple file |
| .mat | Matlab script |
| .me | nroff input file for processing with -me option |
| .mpg | MPEG animation file |
| .ms | nroff input file for processing with -ms option |
| .o | Object code, produced by compilers |
| .pal | Xpaint palette file |
| .pbm | Portable bitmap |
| .pgm | Portable gray scale pixmap |
| .pl | Perl program |
| .png | PNG format graphics file (similar to GIF) |
| .ppm | Portable pixmap |
| .ps | PostScript format document |
| .py | Python program |
| .rast | Sun raster file |
| .rgb | SGI native image file |
| .shar | Shell archive (expand with sh file.shar) |
| .ss | Scheme source code |
| .S | Assembly (machine) code |
| .tar | Tape archive, used by tar command |
| .tar.gz | Tarred-then-gzipped files |
| .tex | TeX or LaTeX format document |
| .tif | TIFF (Adobe) image file |
| .tgz | Tarred-then-gzipped files (equivalent to .tar.gz) |
| .txt | Generic text file |
| .uue | uuencoded file |
| .xbm | X bitmap |
| .z | Packed file (from the pack command) or early gzip file |
| .Z | Compressed file, from compress command |
| .zip | Zipped (compressed) file, from zip command |
Some others include:
| *~ | (File ending with ~ ) Emacs backup file |
| #*# | (File surrounded with #'s) Emacs autobackup file |
| ,* | (File beginning with , ) MH removed message |
| .*rc | (File starting with a dot, ending with rc) configuration file |
Lastly, files with an extension that is a number or a number plus a letter (e.g., cat.1, dbm.3b) are often manual page files, in runoff format.
kb/linux/fileextensions.txt · Last modified: 2007/08/06 13:26 by akuelbs
