NAME

       nbibfind - find bibliography entries for BibTeX or NbibTeX

SYNOPSIS

       nbibfind [-terse|-full|-bib] query [bibname...]

DESCRIPTION

       nbibfind  searches for BibTeX entries using the same query algorithm as NbibTeX.  If the optional list of
       bibnames is given, it searches only those bibliographies; otherwise, it searches  all  bibliographies  on
       the user's BIBINPUTS (or on the standard system path).  The language of query is that of nbibtex(1).

OPTIONS

       -terse Print a one-line summary of each matched entry (the default).

       -full  Print  a  longer  summary of each matched entry, including full authors, year, and title, possibly
              spread over multiple lines.

       -bib   Print each entry in a form suitable for including in a .bib file.

EXAMPLES

       nbibfind author=knuth:series=art-programming:volume=2
       nbibfind knuth:seminumerical personal.bib
       nbibfind harper-moggi:phase
       nbibfind :essence-algol
       nbibfind :essence-functional

QUERY LANGUAGE

       The query language is that of nbibtex(1).

       A query consists of a sequence of one or more constraints separated  by  colons.   A  constraint  may  be
       empty.

       A nonempty constraint is of the form key=words, where key is the name of a field in the NbibTeX entry and
       words  is  a sequence of one or more words separated by dashes.  The contraint is satisfied if every word
       in words is found in the field named by key.  (The key may also be [type], which matches against the type
       of the entry, or *, which looks for words in any field.)

       As a convenience, keys may be defaulted in up to three constraints.  In the first constraint, the default
       key is author.  In the second constraint, the default key is year if words is all digits,  and  is  title
       otherwise.   In  the  third  constraint,  the  default  key is year if words is all digits, and is [type]
       otherwise.

       To match a word in words, nbibfind uses the Boyer-Moore string-matching algorithm, so  longer  words  are
       usually faster.

ENVIRONMENT

       For  .bib  files, nbibfind uses the BIBINPUTS environment variable if that is set, otherwise the default.
       For details of the searching, see tex(1) and kpsewhich(1).

SEE ALSO

       nbibtex(1), latex(1), tex(1), kpsewhich(1), bibtex(1).
       Leslie Lamport, LaTeX - A Document Preparation System, Addison-Wesley, 1985, ISBN 0-201-15790-X.

AUTHOR

       Norman Ramsey, Harvard University.

                                                   4 May 2006                                        NBIBFIND(1)