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NAME

       biblook - lookup entries in a bibliography file

SYNOPSIS

       biblook basename [savefile]

DESCRIPTION

       biblook permits rapid lookup in a BibTeX bibliography database, using a
       compact binary index file prepared by bibindex(1).

       At the prompt, the user can enter any of the following commands:

       ? or h[elp]
              Display a brief help message.

       f[ind] [not] <field> <words>
              Find the entries containing the given words in any field with  a
              prefix  matching the <field> argument.  For example, ‘a’ matches
              both ‘author’ and ‘address’, and ‘au’ matches ‘author’ only.  If
              the  <field>  argument  is ‘-’ (or any string with no letters or
              numbers), match any field.

              If ‘not’ appears before the <field>, the sense of the search  is
              reversed.   The  symbols  ‘~’  and  ‘!’  can be used in place of
              ‘not’.

              Each word is a contiguous sequence of letters and digits.   Case
              is  ignored;  accents  should  be  omitted;  apostrophes are not
              required.  Single characters and a few  common  words  are  also
              ignored.   There is basic support for pattern matching using the
              characters ? and *, which match respectively a single  character
              and  a multi-character string, including the null string.  Thus,
              ‘algorithm??’   matches   ‘algorithmic’,   ‘algorithmes’,    and
              ‘Algorithmen’;   and   ‘*oint*’   matches   ‘point’,   ‘points’,
              ‘pointer’, ‘endpoint’,  ‘disjoint’,  etc.   However  at  present
              patterns beginning with ? cannot be used, as the parser mistakes
              them for a help request.

       and [not] <field> <words>

       or [not] <field> <words>
              Intersect (resp. union) the results of the given search with the
              previous search.  Several of these commands may be combined on a
              single line.  Commands are handled in the order  in  which  they
              appear; there is no precedence.  Unlike other commands, and like
              ‘not’, these must be spelled out completely.  ‘&’ can be used in
              place of ‘and’, and ‘|’ can be used in place of ‘or’.

       d[isplay]
              Display the results of the previous search.

       s[ave] [<filename>]
              Save  the  results  of  the  previous results into the specified
              file.  If <filename> is omitted, the previous save file is used.
              If  no  save  file has ever been specified, results are saved in
              the file specified on the command line.   If  no  such  file  is
              specified, ‘save.bib’ is used.  If the save file exists, results
              are appended to it.

       w[hatis] <abbrev>
              Display the definition of the abbreviation <abbrev>.

       q[uit]/EOF
              Quit.

       Several commands can be combined on a single line  by  separating  them
       with  semicolons.  For example, the following command displays all STOC
       papers cowritten by Erdo"s without ‘Voronoi diagrams’ in the title:

       f b stoc* | b symp* theory comp* & au erdos & ~t voronoi diagrams ; d

ENVIRONMENT

       BIBLOOKPATH
              Search path for BibTeX database files named on the command line.
              If  BIBLOOKPATH  is  not set, biblook defaults to BIBINPUTS.  If
              neither variable is set, the files are  assumed  to  be  in  the
              current directory.

SEE ALSO

       bibclean(1), bibindex(1), bibtex(1), latex(1), tex(1)

AUTHORS

       Jeff  Erickson <jeffe@cs.duke.edu>, Bill Jones <jones@cs.usask.ca>, and
       Rafael   Laboissiere    <rafael@laboissiere.net>    with    significant
       contributions   from   Nelson   Beebe,   Sariel   Har-Peled,  and  Erik
       Schoenfelder.

       The most current version of biblook and bibindex is archived at the URL
       "http://www.cs.duke.edu/~jeffe/biblook.html".