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1.9 KiB
Groff
76 lines
1.9 KiB
Groff
.ig \"-*- nroff -*-
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Copyright (C) 1989-1995 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of
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this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice
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are preserved on all copies.
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Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this
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manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the
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entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a
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permission notice identical to this one.
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Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this
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manual into another language, under the above conditions for modified
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versions, except that this permission notice may be included in
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translations approved by the Free Software Foundation instead of in
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the original English.
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..
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.TH LOOKBIB 1 "August 10, 1996" "Groff Version 1.10"
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.SH NAME
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lookbib \- search bibliographic databases
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B lookbib
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[
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.B \-v
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]
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[
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.BI \-i string
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]
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[
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.BI \-t n
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]
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.IR filename \|.\|.\|.
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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lookbib prints a prompt on the standard error (unless the standard input is not a terminal),
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reads from the standard input a line containing a set of keywords,
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searches the bibliographic databases
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.IR filename \|.\|.\|.
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for references containing those keywords,
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prints any references found on the standard output,
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and repeats this process until the end of input.
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For each database
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.I filename
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to be searched,
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if an index
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.IB filename .i
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created by
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.BR indxbib (1)
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exists, then it will be searched instead;
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each index can cover multiple databases.
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.SH OPTIONS
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.TP
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.B \-v
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Print the version number.
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.TP
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.BI \-i string
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When searching files for which no index exists,
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ignore the contents of fields whose names are in
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.IR string .
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.TP
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.BI \-t n
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Only require the first
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.I n
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characters of keys to be given.
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Initially
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.I n
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is 6.
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.SH FILES
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.TP \w'\fIfilename\fB.i'u+2n
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.IB filename .i
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Index files.
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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.BR refer (1),
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.BR lkbib (1),
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.BR indxbib (1)
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