1lookbib(1)                       User Commands                      lookbib(1)
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NAME

6       lookbib - find references in a bibliographic database
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SYNOPSIS

9       lookbib database
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DESCRIPTION

13       A  bibliographic  reference  is  a set of lines, constituting fields of
14       bibliographic information.  Each field starts on a line beginning  with
15       a `%', followed by a key-letter, then a blank, and finally the contents
16       of the field, which may continue until the next line starting with `%'.
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19       The lookbib utility uses an inverted index made by indxbib to find sets
20       of  bibliographic  references.   It  reads keywords typed after the `>'
21       prompt on the terminal, and retrieves records containing all these key‐
22       words.  If  nothing  matches,  nothing  is  returned except another `>'
23       prompt.
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26       It is possible to search multiple databases, as long  as  they  have  a
27       common  index made by indxbib(1). In that case, only the first argument
28       given to indxbib is specified to lookbib.
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31       If lookbib does not find the index files (the .i[abc] files), it  looks
32       for  a  reference  file with the same name as the argument, without the
33       suffixes.  It creates a file with a .ig suffix, suitable for  use  with
34       fgrep  (see  grep(1)). lookbib then uses this fgrep file to find refer‐
35       ences.  This method is simpler to use, but the .ig file  is  slower  to
36       use than the .i[abc] files, and does not allow the use of multiple ref‐
37       erence files.
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FILES

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ATTRIBUTES

53       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
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58       ┌─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
59       │      ATTRIBUTE TYPE         │      ATTRIBUTE VALUE        │
60       ├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
61       │Availability                 │SUNWdoc                      │
62       └─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘
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SEE ALSO

65       addbib(1),  grep(1),  indxbib(1),  refer(1),  roffbib(1),   sortbib(1),
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BUGS

69       Probably  all  dates should be indexed, since many disciplines refer to
70       literature written in the 1800s or earlier.
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74SunOS 5.11                        14 Sep 1992                       lookbib(1)
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