Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your UNIX file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert UNIX to another file type
To convert UNIX Unix files to another format, you need Notepad++ or other System software.
Convert a file to UNIX
To convert other file formats to the "Generic Unix File" file type, you need software like Notepad++ or a similar tool.
About UNIX files
In Unix and Linux operating systems, file extensions are optional and are mostly a matter of human convention rather than system requirement. When data is transferred from a Unix environment to a Windows or macOS machine, it may be given a .unix extension to denote its origin. These files are typically plain text documents, custom shell scripts, backups, or generic binary data dumps. They can usually be inspected using advanced text editors like Notepad++ or command-line tools. The main disadvantage of the .unix format on Windows is a lack of native file association. When you double-click it, the OS will prompt you to choose an application. Furthermore, text-based Unix files use a single LF (Line Feed) character for line breaks, whereas Windows traditionally uses CRLF (Carriage Return + Line Feed). This causes legacy Windows software to display the text as one continuous, broken line. If the file is a compiled binary (such as an ELF executable), it cannot run natively on Windows without a compatibility layer like WSL. The best workaround is to identify the file's true nature. If it's plain text, converting or renaming it to TXT or SH will make it accessible. If it is an archive, extracting it or converting it to ZIP is the standard approach. Because .unix is an arbitrary extension, standard online converters often reject it. Our system reads the file's internal 'magic bytes' to determine if it is a text document, a compressed archive, or an executable. We can then show you the text or internal content, and convert it if a supported underlying format is detected.
Convert.Guru analyzes your UNIX file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
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FAQ
If you want to convert UNIX file to PST, SYS, DLL, EXE, DRV, VXD, 386, COM, BAT, CMD, SCR or PIF, you can use Notepad++ or similar software from the "Unix System Data" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert MSI, EXE, REG, MST, LNK, CAB, CAT, DRV, INF, SYS, MSU or DLL files to UNIX, try Notepad++ or another comparable tool in the "Unix System Data" category.
The UNIX Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our UNIX converter.