NAME
    indxbib - make inverted index for bibliographic databases

SYNOPSIS
    indxbib [ -vw ] [ -cfile ] [ -ddir ] [ -ffile ] [ -hn ] [ -istring ]
     [ -kn ] [ -ln ] [ -nn ] [ -ofile ] [ -tn ] [ filename... ]

    It is possible to have whitespace between a command line option and its
    parameter.

DESCRIPTION
    indxbib makes an inverted index for the bibliographic databases in
    filename... for use with refer(1), lookbib(1), and lkbib(1).  The
    index will be named filename.i; the index is written to a temporary
    file which is then renamed to this. If no filenames are given on the
    command line because the -f option has been used, and no -o option is
    given, the index will be named Ind.i.

    Bibliographic databases are divided into records by  blank lines.
    Within a record, each fields starts with a % character at the beginning
    of a line. Fields have a one letter name which follows the % charac-
    ter.

    The values set  by the -c, -n, -l and -t options are stored in the
    index; when the index is searched, keys will be discarded and truncated
    in a manner appropriate to these options; the original keys will be
    used for verifying that any record found using the index actually con-
    tains the keys.  This  means that a user of an index need not know
    whether these options were used in the creation of the index, provided
    that not all the keys to be searched for would have been discarded dur-
    ing indexing and that the user supplies at least the part of each key
    that would have remained after being truncated during indexing. The
    value set by the -i option is also stored in the index and will be used
    in verifying records found using the index.

OPTIONS
    -v   Print the version number.

    -w   Index whole files. Each file is a separate record.

    -cfile Read  the  list  of  common words from file instead of
    /usr/share/groff/1.18.1/eign.

    -ddir Use dir as the pathname of the current working  directory to
    store in the index, instead of the path printed by pwd(1). Usu-
    ally dir will be a symbolic link that points to the directory
    printed by pwd(1).

    -ffile Read the  files to be indexed from file. If file is -, files
    will be read from the standard input.  The -f option can be
    given at most once.

    -istring
    Don't index the  contents of fields whose names are in string.
    Initially string is XYZ.

    -hn  Use the first prime greater than or equal to n for the size of
    the hash table. Larger values of n will usually make searching
    faster, but will make the index larger and indxbib use more mem-
    ory. Initially n is 997.

    -kn  Use at most n keys per input record. Initially n is 100.

    -ln  Discard keys that are shorter than n. Initially n is 3.

    -nn  Discard the n most common words. Initially n is 100.

    -obasename
    The index should be named basename.i.

    -tn  Truncate keys to n. Initially n is 6.

FILES
    filename.i   Index.

    Ind.i    Default index name.

    /usr/share/groff/1.18.1/eign
     List of common words.

    indxbibXXXXXX Temporary file.

SEE ALSO
   refer(1),lkbib(1),lookbib(1)