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.TH @G@LOOKBIB @MAN1EXT@ "@MDATE@" "Groff Version @VERSION@" 22. 23. 24.SH NAME 25@g@lookbib \- search bibliographic databases 26. 27. 28.SH SYNOPSIS 29.B @g@lookbib 30[ 31.B \-v 32] 33[ 34.BI \-i string 35] 36[ 37.BI \-t n 38] 39.IR filename \|.\|.\|. 40. 41.PP 42It is possible to have whitespace between a command line option and its 43parameter. 44. 45. 46.SH DESCRIPTION 47.B @g@lookbib 48prints a prompt on the standard error (unless the standard input is not 49a terminal), 50reads from the standard input a line containing a set of keywords, 51searches the bibliographic databases 52.IR filename \|.\|.\|.\& 53for references containing those keywords, 54prints any references found on the standard output, 55and repeats this process until the end of input. 56For each database 57.I filename 58to be searched, 59if an index 60.IB filename @INDEX_SUFFIX@ 61created by 62.BR @g@indxbib (@MAN1EXT@) 63exists, then it will be searched instead; 64each index can cover multiple databases. 65. 66. 67.SH OPTIONS 68.TP 69.B \-v 70Print the version number. 71. 72.TP 73.BI \-i string 74When searching files for which no index exists, 75ignore the contents of fields whose names are in 76.IR string . 77. 78.TP 79.BI \-t n 80Only require the first 81.I n 82characters of keys to be given. 83Initially 84.I n 85is\~6. 86. 87. 88.SH FILES 89.TP \w'\fIfilename\fB@INDEX_SUFFIX@'u+2n 90.IB filename @INDEX_SUFFIX@ 91Index files. 92. 93. 94.SH "SEE ALSO" 95.BR @g@refer (@MAN1EXT@), 96.BR lkbib (@MAN1EXT@), 97.BR @g@indxbib (@MAN1EXT@) 98. 99.\" Local Variables: 100.\" mode: nroff 101.\" End: 102