| 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) |
