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1.ig 2Copyright (C) 1989-2000, 2001 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.ds g \" empty 20.ds G \" empty 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.TH LKBIB @MAN1EXT@ "@MDATE@" "Groff Version @VERSION@" 28.SH NAME 29lkbib \- search bibliographic databases 30.SH SYNOPSIS 31.B lkbib 32[ 33.B \-v 34] 35[ 36.BI \-i fields 37] 38[ 39.BI \-p filename 40] 41[ 42.BI \-t n 43] 44.IR key \|.\|.\|. 45.PP 46It is possible to have whitespace between a command line option and its 47parameter. 48.SH DESCRIPTION 49.B lkbib 50searches bibliographic databases for references that contain the keys 51.IR key \|.\|.\|. 52and prints any references found on the standard output. 53.B lkbib 54will search any databases given by 55.B \-p 56options, and then a default database. 57The default database is taken from the 58.SB REFER 59environment variable if it is set, 60otherwise it is 61.BR @DEFAULT_INDEX@ . 62For each database 63.I filename 64to be searched, 65if an index 66.IB filename @INDEX_SUFFIX@ 67created by 68.BR @g@indxbib (@MAN1EXT@) 69exists, then it will be searched instead; 70each index can cover multiple databases. 71.SH OPTIONS 72.TP 73.B \-v 74Print the version number. 75.TP 76.BI \-p filename 77Search 78.IR filename . 79Multiple 80.B \-p 81options can be used. 82.TP 83.BI \-i string 84When searching files for which no index exists, 85ignore the contents of fields whose names are in 86.IR string . 87.TP 88.BI \-t n 89Only require the first 90.I n 91characters of keys to be given. 92Initially 93.I n 94is 6. 95.SH ENVIRONMENT 96.TP \w'\fBREFER'u+2n 97.SB REFER 98Default database. 99.SH FILES 100.Tp \w'\fB@DEFAULT_INDEX@'u+2n 101.B @DEFAULT_INDEX@ 102Default database to be used if the 103.SB REFER 104environment variable is not set. 105.IB filename @INDEX_SUFFIX@ 106Index files. 107.SH "SEE ALSO" 108.BR @g@refer (@MAN1EXT@), 109.BR @g@lookbib (@MAN1EXT@), 110.BR @g@indxbib (@MAN1EXT@) 111. 112.\" Local Variables: 113.\" mode: nroff 114.\" End: 115