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+.\" Modified Thu Nov 16 23:28:25 2000 by David A. Wheeler
+.\"    <dwheeler@dwheeler.com>
+.TH SUFFIXES 7  2000-11-16 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.SH NAME
+suffixes \- list of file suffixes
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+It is customary to indicate 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.  The 
+.BR make (1)
+utility is driven by rules based on file suffix.
+.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, equivalent to \fI.cc\fP
+ .F	Fortran source with \fBcpp\fP(1) directives
+	or file compressed using freeze
+ .S	assembler source with \fBcpp\fP(1) directives
+ .Y	file compressed using yabba
+ .Z	file compressed using \fBcompress\fP(1)
+ .[0-9]+gf	TeX generic font files
+ .[0-9]+pk	TeX packed 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
+ .ad	X application default resource file
+ .ada	Ada source (may be body, spec, or combination)
+ .adb	Ada body source
+ .ads	Ada spec source
+ .afm	PostScript font metrics
+ .al	Perl autoload file
+ .am	\fBautomake\fP(1) input file
+ .arc	\fBarc\fP(1) archive
+ .arj	\fBarj\fP(1) archive
+ .asc	PGP ASCII-armoured data
+ .asm	(GNU) assember source file
+ .au	Audio sound file
+ .aux	LaTeX auxiliary file
+ .avi	(msvideo) movie
+ .awk	AWK language program
+ .b	LILO boot loader image
+ .bak	backup file
+ .bash	\fBbash\fP(1) shell script
+ .bb	basic block list data produced by
+	gcc -ftest-coverage
+ .bbg	basic block graph data produced by
+	gcc -ftest-coverage
+ .bbl	BibTeX output
+ .bdf	X font file
+ .bib	TeX bibliographic database, BibTeX input
+ .bm	bitmap source
+ .bmp	bitmap
+ .bz2	file compressed using \fBbzip2\fP(1)
+ .c	C source
+ .cat	message catalog files
+ .cc	C++ source
+ .cf	configuration file
+ .cfg	configuration file
+ .cgi	WWW content generating script or program
+ .cls	LaTeX Class definition
+ .class	Java compiled byte-code
+ .conf	configuration file
+ .config	configuration file
+ .cpp	equivalent to \fI.cc\fR
+ .csh	\fBcsh\fP(1) shell script
+ .cxx	equivalent to \fI.cc\fR
+ .dat	data file
+ .deb	Debian software package
+ .def	Modula-2 source for definition modules
+ .def	other definition files
+ .desc	initial part of mail message unpacked with
+	\fBmunpack\fP(1)
+ .diff	file differences (\fBdiff\fP(1) command output)
+ .dir	dbm data base directory file
+ .doc	documentation file
+ .dsc	Debian Source Control (source package)
+ .dtx	LaTeX package source file
+ .dvi	TeX's device independent output
+ .el	Emacs-Lisp source
+ .elc	compiled Emacs-Lisp source
+ .eps	encapsulated PostScript
+ .exp	Expect source code
+ .f	Fortran source
+ .f77	Fortran 77 source
+ .f90	Fortran 90 source
+ .fas	pre-compiled Common-Lisp
+ .fi	Fortran include files
+ .fig	FIG image file (used by \fBxfig\fP(1))
+ .fmt	TeX format file
+ .gif	Compuserve Graphics Image File format
+ .gmo	GNU format message catalog
+ .gsf	Ghostscript fonts
+ .gz	file compressed using \fBgzip\fP(1)
+ .h	C or C++ header files
+ .help	help file
+ .hf	equivalent to \fI.help\fP
+ .hlp	equivalent to \fI.help\fP
+ .htm	poor man's \fI.html\fP
+ .html	HTML document used with the World Wide Web
+ .hqx	7-bit encoded Macintosh file
+ .i	C source after preprocessing
+ .icon	bitmap source
+ .idx	reference or datum-index file for hypertext
+	or database system
+ .image	bitmap source
+ .in	configuration template, especially for GNU Autoconf
+ .info	files for the Emacs info browser
+ .info-[0-9]+	splitted info files
+ .ins	LaTeX package install file for docstrip
+ .itcl	itcl source code;
+	itcl ([incr Tcl]) is an OO extension of tcl
+ .java	a Java source file
+ .jpeg	Joint Photographic Experts Group format
+ .jpg	poor man's \fI.jpeg\fP
+ .kmap	\fBlyx\fP(1) keymap
+ .l	equivalent to \fI.lex\fP or \fI.lisp\fP
+ .lex	\fBlex\fP(1) or \fBflex\fP(1) files
+ .lha	lharc archive
+ .lib	Common-Lisp library
+ .lisp	Lisp source
+ .ln	files for use with \fBlint\fP(1)
+ .log	log file, in particular produced by TeX
+ .lsm	Linux Software Map entry
+ .lsp	Common-Lisp source
+ .lzh	lharc archive
+ .m	Objective-C source code
+ .m4	\fBm4\fP(1) source
+ .mac	macro files for various programs
+ .man	manual page (usually source rather than formatted)
+ .map	map files for various programs
+ .me	Nroff source using the me macro package
+ .mf	Metafont (font generator for TeX) source
+ .mgp	MagicPoint file
+ .mm	sources for \fBgroff\fP(1) in mm - format
+ .mo	Message catalog binary file
+ .mod	Modula-2 source for implementation modules
+ .mov	(quicktime) movie
+ .mp	Metapost source
+ .mp2	MPEG Layer 2 (audio) file
+ .mp3	MPEG Layer 3 (audio) file
+ .mpeg	movie file
+ .o	object file
+ .old	old or backup file
+ .orig	backup (original) version of a file, from \fBpatch\fP(1)
+ .out	output file, often executable program (a.out)
+ .p	Pascal source
+ .pag	dbm data base data file
+ .patch	file differences for \fBpatch\fP(1)
+ .pbm	portable bitmap format
+ .pcf	X11 font files
+ .pdf	Adobe Portable Data Format
+	(use Acrobat/\fBacroread\fP or \fBxpdf\fP)
+ .perl	Perl source (see .ph, .pl and .pm)
+ .pfa	PostScript font definition files, ASCII format
+ .pfb	PostScript font definition files, binary format
+ .pgm	portable greymap format
+ .pgp	PGP binary data
+ .ph	Perl header file
+ .php	PHP program file
+ .php3	PHP3 program file
+ .pid	File to store daemon pid (e.g. crond.pid)
+ .pl	TeX property list file or Perl library file
+ .pm	Perl module
+ .png	Portable Network Graphics file
+ .po	Message catalog source
+ .pod	\fBperldoc\fP(1) file
+ .ppm	portable pixmap format
+ .pr	bitmap source
+ .ps	PostScript file
+ .py	Python source
+ .pyc	compiled python
+ .qt	quicktime movie
+ .r	RATFOR source (obsolete)
+ .rej	patches that \fBpatch\fP(1) couldn't apply
+ .rpm	RedHat software package
+ .rtf	Rich Text Format file
+ .rules	rules for something
+ .s	assembler source
+ .sa	stub libraries for a.out shared libraries
+ .sc	\fBsc\fP(1) spreadsheed commands
+ .scm	Scheme source code
+ .sed	sed source file
+ .sgml	SGML source file
+ .sh	\fBsh\fP(1) scripts
+ .shar	archive created by the \fBshar\fP(1) utility
+ .so	Shared library or dynamically loadable object
+ .sql	SQL source
+ .sqml	SQML schema or query program
+ .sty	LaTeX style files
+ .sym	Modula-2 compiled definition modules
+ .tar	archive created by the \fBtar\fP(1) utility
+ .tar.Z	tar(1) archive compressed with \fBcompress\fP(1)
+ .tar.bz2	tar(1) archive compressed with \fBbzip2\fP(1)
+ .tar.gz	tar(1) archive compressed with \fBgzip\fP(1)
+ .taz	tar(1) archive compressed with \fBcompress\fP(1)
+ .tcl	tcl source code
+ .tex	TeX or LaTeX source
+ .texi	equivalent to \fI.texinfo\fP
+ .texinfo	Texinfo documentation source
+ .text	text file
+ .tfm	TeX font metric file
+ .tgz	tar archive compressed with \fBgzip\fP(1)
+ .tif	poor man's \fI.tiff\fP
+ .tiff	Tagged Image File Format
+ .tk	tcl/tk script
+ .tmp	temporary file
+ .tmpl	template files
+ .txt	equivalent to \fI.text\fP
+ .uu	equivalent to \fI.uue\fP
+ .uue	binary file encoded with \fBuuencode\fP(1)
+ .vf	TeX virtual font file
+ .vpl	TeX virtual property list file
+ .w	Silvio Levi's CWEB
+ .wav	wave sound file
+ .web	Donald Knuth's WEB
+ .wml	Source file for Web Meta Language
+ .xbm	X11 bitmap source
+ .xcf	GIMP graphic
+ .xml	eXtended Markup Language file
+ .xsl	XSL stylesheet
+ .xpm	X11 pixmap source
+ .xs	Perl xsub file produced by h2xs
+ .y	\fByacc\fP(1) or \fBbison\fP(1) (parser generator) files
+ .z	File compressed using \fBpack\fP(1) (or an old \fBgzip\fP(1))
+ .zip	\fBzip\fP(1) archive
+ .zoo	\fBzoo\fP(1) archive
+ ~	Emacs or \fBpatch\fP(1) backup file
+ rc	startup (`run control') file, e.g. \fI.newsrc\fP
+.TE
+.SH "CONFORMS TO"
+General UNIX conventions.
+.SH BUGS
+This list is not exhaustive.
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.BR file (1),
+.BR make (1)