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

[Sabniveesu Shashank]

Thanks Kevin O' Gorman. Your explanation is detailed and has a good amount
of information.

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On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 3:13 PM, Richard Hector <richard at walnut.gen.nz>wrote:

> 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
>
>
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