A Computer file is a stream of bits which is stored in a single unit or in a file system on disk. A file is presented in a single stream, it can be used to store as multiple fragments of data at different places on a disk. In the computer file, the operating systems can perform applications is that of organization of files in a file system.

The computer files can be used to create software and conform to a particular file format. They are almost always assigned file names by the file system on which they are stored, so that they can be referred to at a later time. Some operating systems allow the contents of a file to be segmented into fixed and variable length records.

For example, OpenVMS allows any arbitrary set of characters to be defined as the terminators to variable length record within a file. Microsoft Windows, have one specialized file, called a text file, where a sequence of characters separates the data into lines of text. Some operating systems, such as UNIX, do not handle file records at the operating system level; instead it is done at the application level. See record-oriented file system. A special file is a file system object which is accessed as though it was a file, but the sequence of bits is supplied or consumed by another process, such as a device driver interface. The philosophy everything is a file is one of the best known design decisions in operating systems.

Files are often organized hierarchically by the operating system; placing them in directories. A computer file format is a particular way to encode information for storage on a computer. Some computer file formats are Open standards, or even open formats. There are 14 subcategories to this category.

The computer file have many archive formats, Audio file formats, CAD file formats, Codec’s, Container formats, Digital audio, Executable file formats, Graphics file formats, Lists of file formats, Markup languages, Music file formats, PDF files, Style sheet languages, Video file formats.

There are 123 articles of computer files they are .arc, .bat .bmp, .conf, .dll, .dmg, .gif, .gz, .ics, .ifb, .jpe, .jpeg, .jpg, .m4a, .mdf, .pcx, .pst, .txt, .xpm, 8SVX, AIFF, ARINC, ASCII tab, Advanced Audio Coding, Advanced Stream Redirector, Amiga Disk File, Amigaguide, Ascii85, Au file format, Audio file format, Base64, BinHex, Binary and text files, Blorb, Browser Helper Object, CDA, CMD file, COLLADA, COM file, Comma-separated values, Container format, DOC, DVI file format, DWARF, Delimited, Disk image, DjVu, Document file format, Docx, DotXSI, Extensible Binary Meta Language, FASTA format, File format, Filename extension, Forsyth-Edwards Notation, Free file format, GDSII, GEDCOM, General Data Format for Biomedical Signals, ICalendar, IFX, ISO image, Interchange File Format, International Patching System, Library (computer science), List of file formats, M2v, M3U, MP3, MPEG-4 Part 14, MXF, Mac Binary, MapInfo Interchange Format, Matroska, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Moving Picture Experts Group, Multimedia Container Format, Muse pack, Musical Instrument Digital Interface, ODT, GM, Open DAP, Object file, Object format, Open Artwork System Interchange Standard, Open Document Architecture, Open Document Interchange Format, Open Financial Exchange, Open Document and many other computer files formats are available.

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