1lookbib(1)                  General Commands Manual                 lookbib(1)
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Name

6       lookbib - search bibliographic databases
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Synopsis

9       lookbib [-i string] [-t n] file ...
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11       lookbib --help
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14       lookbib --version
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Description

17       lookbib  writes a prompt to the standard error stream (unless the stan‐
18       dard input stream is not a terminal), reads from the standard  input  a
19       line containing a set of keywords, searches each bibliographic database
20       file for references containing those keywords,  writes  any  references
21       found to the standard output stream, and repeats this process until the
22       end of input.  For each database file  to  be  searched,  if  an  index
23       file.i  created by indxbib(1) exists, then it will be searched instead;
24       each index can cover multiple databases.
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Options

27       --help displays a usage message, while -v and  --version  show  version
28       information; all exit afterward.
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30       -i string
31              When  searching files for which no index exists, ignore the con‐
32              tents of fields whose names are in string.
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Files

38       file.i Index files.
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See also

41       “Some  Applications  of  Inverted Indexes on the Unix System”, by M. E.
42       Lesk, 1978, AT&T Bell Laboratories Computing Science  Technical  Report
43       No. 69.
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45       refer(1), lkbib(1), indxbib(1)
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