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 input.  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.

       -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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