General guidance needed; 'terminfo' and other special class of commands

[Richard Hector]

On 26/05/14 03:09, Sabniveesu Shashank wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Today I came across some discussion to discover 'terminfo'. After a few
> attempts I see terminfo is not a command yet a man page exists for it.

If you look at the top of the man page, you'll see it says
"terminfo(5)". That means it's in section 5 of the manual, which covers
file formats.

For the full list of manual sections, see 'man man'.

Note also that when people refer to man pages they might say something
like "see crontab(5)", which means "look at the crontab entry in section
5 of the manual", which you can get with "man 5 crontab". If you don't
specify a section, you'll get the first section that has such an entry -
so "man crontab" will get you crontab(1), the manpage for the crontab
command rather than the file format. To see what sections have such a
keyword, use eg "man -k crontab".

Richard