lookbib(1)                                           General Commands Manual                                           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  references  containing
       those  keywords,  writes any references found to the standard output stream, and repeats this process until the end of in‐
       put.  For each database file to be searched, if an index file.i created by indxbib(1) exists, then it will be searched in‐
       stead; 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)

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