File or filing may refer to:
Tools:
- File (tool)
- Filing (metalworking)
- Nail file
Paper or computer records:
- File folder, a folder for holding loose papers
- Filing cabinet or file cabinet
- Filing (legal), submitting a document to the clerk of a court
- Computer file
- File URI scheme
- File (command), a Unix program for determining the type of data contained in a computer file
Other:
- File (formation), a single column of men one in front of the other
- File (chess), a column of the chessboard
- Filé powder, a culinary ingredient used in Cajun and Creole cooking
- Filé (band), a Cajun musical ensemble from Louisiana, U. S
- Fili or file, a class of Irish poets
- Electronic Language International Festival, an art and technology festival held yearly in São Paulo, Brazil
I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled “ Science Fiction” ... and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal.
— Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (b. 1922)