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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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