.ig \"-*- nroff -*- Copyright (C) 1989-1995 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved on all copies. Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a permission notice identical to this one. Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this manual into another language, under the above conditions for modified versions, except that this permission notice may be included in translations approved by the Free Software Foundation instead of in the original English. .. .ds g \" empty .ds G \" empty .\" Like TP, but if specified indent is more than half .\" the current line-length - indent, use the default indent. .de Tp .ie \\n(.$=0:((0\\$1)*2u>(\\n(.lu-\\n(.iu)) .TP .el .TP "\\$1" .. .TH LKBIB @MAN1EXT@ "@MDATE@" "Groff Version @VERSION@" .SH NAME lkbib \- search bibliographic databases .SH SYNOPSIS .B lkbib [ .B \-v ] [ .BI \-i fields ] [ .BI \-p filename ] [ .BI \-t n ] .IR key \|.\|.\|. .SH DESCRIPTION .B lkbib searches bibliographic databases for references that contain the keys .IR key \|.\|.\|. and prints any references found on the standard output. .B lkbib will search any databases given by .B \-p options, and then a default database. The default database is taken from the .SB REFER environment variable if it is set, otherwise it is .BR @DEFAULT_INDEX@ . For each database .I filename to be searched, if an index .IB filename @INDEX_SUFFIX@ created by .BR @g@indxbib (@MAN1EXT@) exists, then it will be searched instead; each index can cover multiple databases. .SH OPTIONS .TP .B \-v Print the version number. .TP .BI \-p filename Search .IR filename . Multiple .B \-p options can be used. .TP .BI \-i string When searching files for which no index exists, ignore the contents of fields whose names are in .IR string . .TP .BI \-t n Only require the first .I n characters of keys to be given. Initially .I n is 6. .SH ENVIRONMENT .TP \w'\fBREFER'u+2n .SB REFER Default database. .SH FILES .Tp \w'\fB@DEFAULT_INDEX@'u+2n .B @DEFAULT_INDEX@ Default database to be used if the .SB REFER environment variable is not set. .IB filename @INDEX_SUFFIX@ Index files. .SH "SEE ALSO" .BR @g@refer (@MAN1EXT@), .BR @g@lookbib (@MAN1EXT@), .BR @g@indxbib (@MAN1EXT@)