NAME

       indxbib - make inverted index for bibliographic databases

SYNOPSIS

       indxbib [-w] [-c file] [-d dir] [-f file] [-h n] [-i string] [-k n] [-l n] [-n n] [-o file] [-t n]
               [filename ...]

       indxbib --help

       indxbib -v
       indxbib --version

DESCRIPTION

       indxbib makes an inverted index for the bibliographic databases in filename...  for  use  with  refer(1),
       lookbib(1),  and  lkbib(1).  The index will be named filename.i; the index is written to a temporary file
       which is then renamed to this.  If no filenames are given on the command line because the -f  option  has
       been used, and no -o option is given, the index will be named Ind.i.

       Bibliographic  databases  are  divided  into records by blank lines.  Within a record, each fields starts
       with a % character at the beginning of a line.  Fields have  a  one  letter  name  which  follows  the  %
       character.

       The  values  set  by  the -c, -n, -l, and -t options are stored in the index; when the index is searched,
       keys will be discarded and truncated in a manner appropriate to these options; the original keys will  be
       used  for  verifying that any record found using the index actually contains the keys.  This means that a
       user of an index need not know whether these options were used in the creation  of  the  index,  provided
       that  not  all  the  keys  to be searched for would have been discarded during indexing and that the user
       supplies at least the part of each key that would have remained after being  truncated  during  indexing.
       The  value  set  by the -i option is also stored in the index and will be used in verifying records found
       using the index.

OPTIONS

       Whitespace is permitted between a command-line option and its argument.

       -v     Print the version number.

       -w     Index whole files.  Each file is a separate record.

       -cfile Read the list of common words from file instead of /usr/share/groff/1.22.4/eign.

       -ddir  Use dir as the pathname of the current working directory to store in the  index,  instead  of  the
              path  printed by pwd(1).  Usually dir will be a symbolic link that points to the directory printed
              by pwd(1).

       -ffile Read the files to be indexed from file.  If file is -, files will be read from the standard input.
              The -f option can be given at most once.

       -istring
              Don't index the contents of fields whose names are in string.  Initially string is XYZ.

       -hn    Use the first prime greater than or equal to n for the size of the hash table.  Larger values of n
              will usually make searching faster, but will make the index larger and indxbib  use  more  memory.
              Initially n is 997.

       -kn    Use at most n keys per input record.  Initially n is 100.

       -ln    Discard keys that are shorter than n.  Initially n is 3.

       -nn    Discard the n most common words.  Initially n is 100.

       -obasename
              The index should be named basename.i.

       -tn    Truncate keys to n.  Initially n is 6.

FILES

       filename.i
              Index.

       Ind.i  Default index name.

       /usr/share/groff/1.22.4/eign
              List of common words.

       indxbibXXXXXX
              Temporary file.

SEE ALSO

       refer(1), lkbib(1), lookbib(1)