lookbib - search bibliographic databases
lookbib [ -v ] [ -istring ] [ -tn ] filename...
LOOKBIB(1) General Commands Manual LOOKBIB(1)
NAME
lookbib - search bibliographic databases
SYNOPSIS
lookbib [ -v ] [ -istring ] [ -tn ] filename...
DESCRIPTION
lookbib prints a prompt on the standard error (unless the standard
input is not a terminal), reads from the standard input a line contain-
ing a set of keywords, searches the bibliographic databases filename...
for references containing those keywords, prints any references found
on the standard output, and repeats this process until the end of
input. For each database filename to be searched, if an index file-
name.i created by indxbib(1) exists, then it will be searched instead;
each index can cover multiple databases.
OPTIONS
It is possible to have whitespace between a command line option and its
parameter.
-v Print the version number.
-istring
When searching files for which no index exists, ignore the con-
tents of fields whose names are in string.
-tn Only require the first n characters of keys to be given. Ini-
tially n is 6.
FILES
filename.i Index files.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+---------------+------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+------------------+
|Availability | text/groff |
+---------------+------------------+
|Stability | Uncommitted |
+---------------+------------------+
SEE ALSO
refer(1), lkbib(1), indxbib(1)
COPYING
Copyright (C) 1989-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this
manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are
preserved on all copies.
Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this
manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the
entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a per-
mission notice identical to this one.
Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this man-
ual into another language, under the above conditions for modified ver-
sions, except that this permission notice may be included in transla-
tions approved by the Free Software Foundation instead of in the origi-
nal English.
NOTES
Source code for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can
be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source-
code-downloads.html.
This software was built from source available at
https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland. The original community
source was downloaded from
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/groff/groff-1.22.3.tar.gz.
Further information about this software can be found on the open source
community website at https://www.gnu.org/software/groff.
Groff Version 1.22.3 4 November 2014 LOOKBIB(1)