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)