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Name
lookbib - search bibliographic databases
Synopsis
lookbib [-i string] [-t n] file ...
lookbib --help
lookbib -v
lookbib --version
Description
lookbib writes a prompt to the standard error stream (unless the standard input stream is not a terminal), reads
from the standard input a line containing a set of keywords, searches each bibliographic database file for refer‐
ences containing those keywords, writes any references found to the standard output stream, and repeats this
process until the end of input. For each database file to be searched, if an index file.i created by indxbib(1)
exists, then it will be searched instead; each index can cover multiple databases.
Options
--help displays a usage message, while -v and --version show version information; all exit afterward.
-i string
When searching files for which no index exists, ignore the contents of fields whose names are in string.
-t n Require only the first n characters of keys to be given. The default is 6.
Files
file.i Index files.
See also
“Some Applications of Inverted Indexes on the Unix System”, by M. E. Lesk, 1978, AT&T Bell Laboratories Computing
Science Technical Report No. 69.
refer(1), lkbib(1), indxbib(1)
groff 1.23.0 2 July 2023 lookbib(1)
Name
lookbib - search bibliographic databases
Synopsis
lookbib [-i string] [-t n] file ...
lookbib --help
lookbib -v
lookbib --version
Description
lookbib writes a prompt to the standard error stream (unless the standard input stream is not a terminal), reads
from the standard input a line containing a set of keywords, searches each bibliographic database file for refer‐
ences containing those keywords, writes any references found to the standard output stream, and repeats this
process until the end of input. For each database file to be searched, if an index file.i created by indxbib(1)
exists, then it will be searched instead; each index can cover multiple databases.
Options
--help displays a usage message, while -v and --version show version information; all exit afterward.
-i string
When searching files for which no index exists, ignore the contents of fields whose names are in string.
-t n Require only the first n characters of keys to be given. The default is 6.
Files
file.i Index files.
See also
“Some Applications of Inverted Indexes on the Unix System”, by M. E. Lesk, 1978, AT&T Bell Laboratories Computing
Science Technical Report No. 69.
refer(1), lkbib(1), indxbib(1)
groff 1.23.0 2 July 2023 lookbib(1)