lkbib(1)                    General Commands Manual                   lkbib(1)

Name
       lkbib - search bibliographic databases

Synopsis
       lkbib [-n] [-i fields] [-p file] ... [-t n] key ...

       lkbib --help

       lkbib -v
       lkbib --version

Description
       lkbib searches bibliographic databases for references containing
       keywords key and writes any references found to the standard output
       stream.  It reads databases given by -p options and then (unless -n is
       given) a default database.  The default database is taken from the
       REFER environment variable if it is set, otherwise it is
       /usr/dict/papers/Ind.  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.

       -n     Suppress search of default database.

       -p file
              Search file.  Multiple -p options can be used.

       -t n   Require only the first n characters of keys to be given.  The
              default is 6.

Environment
       REFER  Default database.

Files
       /usr/dict/papers/Ind
              Default database to be used if the REFER environment variable is
              not set.

       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), lookbib(1), indxbib(1)

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