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+.TH LOOKBIB 1 "7 March 2023" "groff 1.22.4"
+.SH NAME
+lookbib \- search bibliographic databases
+.
+.
+.\" ====================================================================
+.\" Legal Terms
+.\" ====================================================================
+.\"
+.\" Copyright (C) 1989-2018 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.
+.\"
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+.\" 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.
+.
+.
+.\" ====================================================================
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.\" ====================================================================
+.
+.SY lookbib
+.OP \-i string
+.OP \-t n
+.I filename
+\&.\|.\|.\&
+.YS
+.
+.SY lookbib
+.B \-\-help
+.YS
+.
+.SY lookbib
+.B \-v
+.SY lookbib
+.B \-\-version
+.YS
+.
+.
+.\" ====================================================================
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.\" ====================================================================
+.
+.I lookbib
+prints a prompt on the standard error (unless the standard input is not
+a terminal),
+reads from the standard input a line containing a set of keywords,
+searches the bibliographic databases
+.I 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
+.I filename
+to be searched,
+if an index
+.RI filename .i
+created by
+.IR indxbib (1)
+exists, then it will be searched instead;
+each index can cover multiple databases.
+.
+.
+.\" ====================================================================
+.SH OPTIONS
+.\" ====================================================================
+.
+Whitespace is permitted between a command-line option and its argument.
+.
+.
+.TP
+.B \-\-help
+Display a usage message and exit.
+.
+.
+.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.
+.
+.
+.TP
+.B \-v
+.TQ
+.B \-\-version
+Display version information and exit.
+.
+.
+.\" ====================================================================
+.SH FILES
+.\" ====================================================================
+.
+.TP
+.RI filename .i
+Index files.
+.
+.
+.\" ====================================================================
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.\" ====================================================================
+.IR refer (1),
+.IR lkbib (1),
+.IR indxbib (1)
+.
+.
+.\" Local Variables:
+.\" mode: nroff
+.\" End:
+.\" vim: set filetype=groff: