BIBLOOK(1) User Commands BIBLOOK(1) NAME biblook - lookup entries in a bibliography file SYNOPSIS biblook basename [savefile] DESCRIPTION biblook permits rapid lookup in a BibTeX bibliography data- base, using a compact binary index file prepared by bibin- dex(1). At the prompt, the user can enter any of the following com- mands: ? or h[elp] Display a brief help message. f[ind] [not] Find the entries containing the given words in any field with a prefix matching the argument. For example, `a' matches both `author' and `address', and `au' matches `author' only. If the argument is `-' (or any string with no letters or numbers), match any field. If `not' appears before the , 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 sup- port 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', `algor- ithmes', and `Algorithmen'; and `*oint*' matches `point', `points', `pointer', `endpoint', `disjoint', etc. However at present patterns beginning with ? can- not be used, as the parser mistakes them for a help request. and [not] or [not] 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 pre- cedence. Unlike other commands, and like `not', these must be spelled out completely. `&' can be used in Version 2.9 Last change: 31 March 1998 1 BIBLOOK(1) User Commands BIBLOOK(1) place of `and', and `|' can be used in place of `or'. d[isplay] Display the results of the previous search. s[ave] [] Save the results of the previous results into the specified file. If 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] Display the definition of the abbreviation . 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 com- mand 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 and Bill Jones , with significant contributions from Nelson Beebe, Sariel Har-Peled, and Erik Schoenfelder This program is in the public domain. You may use it or modify it to your heart's content, at your own risk. The most current version of biblook and bibindex is archived at the URL "http://www.cs.duke.edu/~jeffe/biblook.html". Version 2.9 Last change: 31 March 1998 2