Common file types
| Typical Extension | File Type | Application(s) | | txt | text or ascii file | cat, less (view) | | | nedit, emacs (edit) | | pdf | Adobe PDF | acroread, xpdf, gv (view) | | ps, eps | postscript | gv (view) | | | pstops (rearrange) | | | ps2pdf (convert) | | html, htm | web page | links, konqueror, mozilla (view) | | | soffice (create) | | png, jpg, gif... | graphic files | display (view) | | | import (snapshot) | | | convert (convert) | | | gimp (manipulate) | | doc, xls, ppt | Office document | soffice | | sxc, sxi, sxw | OpenOffice document | soffice | | tex | TeX and LaTeX documentz | tex, latex, pdflatex (process) | | dvi | Dvi documents | xdvi (view) |
| | dvips, dvipdf (convert to ps or pdf) | | gz, Z | Compressed file | gunzip, zip, bunzip2, bzip2 | | tar | tar archive | tar tf (view) | | | tar xf (extract) | | | tar cf (create) | | tar.gz | compressed archive | tar xzf (extract) | | tar.bz2 | Compressed tar archive | tar xjf | | zip | zip archive | unzip -l (view) | | | unzip (extract) | | | zip (create) |
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