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1.ig 2Copyright (C) 1989-2000, 2001, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 3 4Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of 5this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice 6are preserved on all copies. 7 8Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this 9manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the 10entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a 11permission notice identical to this one. 12 13Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this 14manual into another language, under the above conditions for modified 15versions, except that this permission notice may be included in 16translations approved by the Free Software Foundation instead of in 17the original English. 18.. 19. 20. 21.\" Like TP, but if specified indent is more than half 22.\" the current line-length - indent, use the default indent. 23.de Tp 24. ie \\n(.$=0:((0\\$1)*2u>(\\n(.lu-\\n(.iu)) .TP 25. el .TP "\\$1" 26.. 27. 28. 29.TH LKBIB @MAN1EXT@ "@MDATE@" "Groff Version @VERSION@" 30. 31. 32.SH NAME 33lkbib \- search bibliographic databases 34. 35. 36.SH SYNOPSIS 37.B lkbib 38[ 39.B \-v 40] 41[ 42.BI \-i fields 43] 44[ 45.BI \-p filename 46] 47[ 48.BI \-t n 49] 50.IR key \|.\|.\|. 51. 52.PP 53It is possible to have whitespace between a command line option and its 54parameter. 55. 56. 57.SH DESCRIPTION 58.B lkbib 59searches bibliographic databases for references that contain the keys 60.IR key \|.\|.\|.\& 61and prints any references found on the standard output. 62.B lkbib 63will search any databases given by 64.B \-p 65options, and then a default database. 66The default database is taken from the 67.SB REFER 68environment variable if it is set, 69otherwise it is 70.BR @DEFAULT_INDEX@ . 71For each database 72.I filename 73to be searched, 74if an index 75.IB filename @INDEX_SUFFIX@ 76created by 77.BR @g@indxbib (@MAN1EXT@) 78exists, then it will be searched instead; 79each index can cover multiple databases. 80. 81. 82.SH OPTIONS 83.TP 84.B \-v 85Print the version number. 86. 87.TP 88.BI \-p filename 89Search 90.IR filename . 91Multiple 92.B \-p 93options can be used. 94. 95.TP 96.BI \-i string 97When searching files for which no index exists, 98ignore the contents of fields whose names are in 99.IR string . 100. 101.TP 102.BI \-t n 103Only require the first 104.I n 105characters of keys to be given. 106Initially 107.I n 108is\~6. 109. 110. 111.SH ENVIRONMENT 112.TP \w'\fBREFER'u+2n 113.SB REFER 114Default database. 115. 116. 117.SH FILES 118.Tp \w'\fB@DEFAULT_INDEX@'u+2n 119.B @DEFAULT_INDEX@ 120Default database to be used if the 121.SB REFER 122environment variable is not set. 123. 124.TP 125.IB filename @INDEX_SUFFIX@ 126Index files. 127. 128. 129.SH "SEE ALSO" 130.BR @g@refer (@MAN1EXT@), 131.BR @g@lookbib (@MAN1EXT@), 132.BR @g@indxbib (@MAN1EXT@) 133. 134.\" Local Variables: 135.\" mode: nroff 136.\" End: 137