NAME
nbibfind - find bibliography entries for BibTeX or NbibTeX
SYNOPSIS
nbibfind [-terse|-full|-bib] query [bibname...]
DESCRIPTION
nbibfind searches for BibTeX entries using the same query algorithm as
NbibTeX. If the optional list of bibnames is given, it searches only
those bibliographies; otherwise, it searches all bibliographies on the
user’s BIBINPUTS (or on the standard system path). The language of
query is that of nbibtex(1).
OPTIONS
-terse Print a one-line summary of each matched entry (the default).
-full Print a longer summary of each matched entry, including full
authors, year, and title, possibly spread over multiple lines.
-bib Print each entry in a form suitable for including in a .bib
file.
EXAMPLES
nbibfind author=knuth:series=art-programming:volume=2
nbibfind knuth:seminumerical personal.bib
nbibfind harper-moggi:phase
nbibfind :essence-algol
nbibfind :essence-functional
QUERY LANGUAGE
The query language is that of nbibtex(1).
A query consists of a sequence of one or more constraints separated by
colons. A constraint may be empty.
A nonempty constraint is of the form key=words, where key is the name
of a field in the NbibTeX entry and words is a sequence of one or more
words separated by dashes. The contraint is satisfied if every word in
words is found in the field named by key. (The key may also be [type],
which matches agains the type of the entry, or *, which looks for words
in any field.)
As a convenience, keys may be defaulted in up to three constraints. In
the first constraint, the default key is author. In the second
constraint, the default key is year if words is all digits, and is
title otherwise. In the third constraint, the default key is year if
words is all digits, and is [type] otherwise.
To match a word in words, nbibfind uses the Boyer-Moore string-matching
algorithm, so longer words are usually faster.
ENVIRONMENT
For .bib files, nbibfind uses the BIBINPUTS environment variable if
that is set, otherwise the default. For details of the searching, see
tex(1) and kpsewhich(1).
SEE ALSO
nbibtex(1), latex(1), tex(1), kpsewhich(1), bibtex(1).
Leslie Lamport, LaTeX - A Document Preparation System, Addison-Wesley,
1985, ISBN 0-201-15790-X.
AUTHOR
Norman Ramsey, Harvard University.
4 May 2006