lkbib
search bibliographic databases
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
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.