EXTMAP.CONF(5)

✨ NAME ✨

okay so bestie, this is extmap.conf — the config file that afpd reads to figure out file name extension mappings 💖 it's the (5) section, aka file formats, so yes it's a config file and yes it's important.

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

extmap.conf is the configuration file used by afpd to specify file name extension mappings. that's literally the whole job, and it does it SO well 💅

the config lines are built like this, periodt:

.extension [ type [ creator ] ]

any line that starts with a hash (#) is ignored — that's your comment, your little "not me talking" moment 🙈

the leading-dot lines are the ones doing the actual work: they specify file name extension mappings ✨

and listen, the extension . is special — it sets the default creator and type for otherwise untyped Unix files. so like, the ones that show up with no type at all? that's the line that catches them 🫶

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🎀 EXAMPLES 🎀

Example: Extension is jpg, type is JPEG, creator is ogle

.jpg "JPEG" "ogle"

look at her go, type AND creator, fully dressed, slaying 🔥

Example: Extension is lzh, type is LHA, creator is not defined

.lzh "LHA"

creator didn't show up to the function and honestly? it's fine, the format allows it 💀

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• afp.conf(5)
• afpd(8)

go read your siblings, iykyk 👑

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

Contributors to the Netatalk Project (https://netatalk.io/contributors) — yeah, the whole group chat wrote this one, iconic behavior fr fr 🌈

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