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Name
lookbib - search bibliographic databases
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Synopsis
[ -i~string]
[ -t~n]
file
...
--help
-v
--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 references 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
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
[lq]Some Applications of Inverted Indexes on the Unix System[rq],
by M. E. Lesk,
1978,
AT&T Bell Laboratories Computing Science Technical Report No. 69.
Index
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- Synopsis
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- Description
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- Options
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- Files
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- See also
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