GLOOKBIB(1)GLOOKBIB(1)NAMEglookbib - search bibliographic databases
SYNOPSISglookbib [ -v ] [ -istring ] [ -tn ] filename...
It is possible to have whitespace between a command line option and its
parameter.
DESCRIPTIONglookbib prints a prompt on the standard error (unless the standard
input is not a terminal), reads from the standard input a line contain‐
ing a set of keywords, searches the bibliographic databases filename...
for references containing those keywords, prints any references found
on the standard output, and repeats this process until the end of
input. For each database filename to be searched, if an index file‐
name.i created by gindxbib(1) exists, then it will be searched instead;
each index can cover multiple databases.
OPTIONS-v Print the version number.
-istring
When searching files for which no index exists, ignore the con‐
tents of fields whose names are in string.
-tn Only require the first n characters of keys to be given. Ini‐
tially n is 6.
FILES
filename.i Index files.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
┌────────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
│ATTRIBUTE TYPE^ATTRIBUTE VALUE │ │
├────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
│Availability^SUNWgroff │ │
├────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
│Interface stability^Uncommitted │ │
└────────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘
SEE ALSOgrefer(1), lkbib(1), gindxbib(1)Groff Version 1.19.2 31 October 2010 GLOOKBIB(1)
