.sch

4 claimants 1 primary 3 secondary unambiguous primary

SWH popularity

Distinct files in the full Software Heritage archive (2026-06-04 export), dated by first appearance, following Desmazières, Di Cosmo, Lorentz (MSR 2025). Case-aggregated. citation.

1.4M
total files
477.2K
first seen 2021–2025 (34.6%)
2020
median year (half its files since)

Case variants in archive: .sch (1.4M), .SCH (6.2K), .Sch (1.7K), .scH (1) — aggregated above.

Attribution status

This extension is attributed to eagle as primary by 1 authoritative claim.

Authoritative sources: ✓ Linguist ✗ Pygments · no claim ✗ Wikidata · no claim ✗ Wikipedia · no claim

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Claimants (4)

Languages that list .sch among their extensions. Strength reflects whether the upstream source treated it as their primary extension.
LanguageSourceStrength
eaglelinguistprimary
KiCad Schematiclinguistsecondary
Schemelinguistsecondary
xmllinguistsecondary

Wikidata says… (8)

File formats, image formats, audio codecs and other non-PL entities that claim .sch on Wikidata (property P1195) or in the Wikipedia infobox. Source: data/derived/external_extension_index.csv. Click Use as new PL on any row to open the Add-PL form pre-filled with that entry's name, Wikipedia/Wikidata URL, and this extension — one submission creates the PL + claim.
Right entry isn't listed? Add manually ↗
FormatClass (Wikidata P31)Suggested labelMIMENotesAction
EAGLE File Format schematic (v6+) Q105852265
file format
file format—application/x-eagle-schematic—Use as new PL ↗
GFA Raytrace Compressed image (hi-res) bitmap Q105858885
file format
file format—application/octet-stream—Use as new PL ↗
KiCad Schematics Q105852663
file format
file format—application/x-kicad-schematic—Use as new PL ↗

Disambiguation rules (1)

Linguist heuristics that decide, by content, which language a .sch file actually is.
RulePredictsKindPredicates (truncated)Measured on SWH
h/linguist/.sch/0KiCad Schematicpredicates[{"kind": "any", "regexes": ["\\AEESchema Schematic File Version[ \\t]+[0-9]+[ \\t]*(?:\\r?\\n|\\r|\\z)", "\\Av[ \\t]+[0-9]{8}[ \\t]+[0-9]+[ \\t]*(?:\\r?\\n|\\r|\\z)"]}]

SWH-mined examples (1)

Real archived programs with this extension, byte-verified against the SWH archive, grouped by predicted language and by how the prediction was made. Useful for deciding what this extension actually is when the attribution is uncertain.
eagle (1) — 1 via unique-primary
DTr1_BN.sch · 342 B · seen 42× in SWH
predicted: eagle via unique-primary
swh:1:cnt:08215a5c622345dacad0d57a6e69739da81dfa2a;origin=https://github.com/TechnikumWienAcademy/cda-ems;anchor=swh:1:rev:93f0fb180d80023cc3a4a4c2646065363206f51f;path=/cda-schematron/include/DTr1_BN.sch
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