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

[Sabniveesu Shashank]

Thank you Richard Hector,

I always wondered what those "numbers" meant. The -k option would help me
in knowing more.

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On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 7:54 PM, Sabniveesu Shashank <shashank at linux.com>wrote:

> 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:
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>> 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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