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filetype

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The title + filetype:pdf seems to find them all.

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Quick take

To assign a type to a file.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of filetype gathered in one view.

verb

To assign a type to a file.

noun

(computing) An identifier indicating the type of information contained in an electronic format.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for filetype.

verb

To assign a type to a file.

noun

(computing) An identifier indicating the type of information contained in an electronic format.

Example sentences

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The title + filetype:pdf seems to find them all.

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File/directory structure based on components rather than filetype.

3

The many indicators (time to read, link to autosummary, articles/hour, tweet count, filetype indicator,...) are crammed in without crowding anything out.

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So I started crawling Google results for 'filetype:.doc.xls' style queries.

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If there's a permission error, out of HD space, invalid filename for this disk format, network timeout on NFS, restrictions on what kind of data can be put in this filetype, whatever.

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Exmeple: #js (more or less obvious from the filetype) #googlemapsapi for a snippet which would show how to use the google maps API Then you would have a page with a tag cloud which allows to easily filter all the snippets (or that could be used in search).

Quote examples

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The "filter-by-filetype" approach used here is going to work a lot better for mixed-content repositories than git-annex, which doesn't have that capability built-in (to my knowledge).

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Here's a fun one: "site:gallery.mailchimp.com filetype:pdf coupon".

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"filetype:" supposedly works as well, but I've had much less luck using it.

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It's not rocket science - go to Google.com, type "[some keyword] filetype:doc" (or pds, or xls, whatever), skip to page 10 or so, then start looking.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use filetype in a sentence?

The title + filetype:pdf seems to find them all.

What does filetype mean?

To assign a type to a file.

What part of speech is filetype?

filetype is commonly used as verb, noun.