NAME
    lookbib - search bibliographic databases

SYNOPSIS
    lookbib [ -v ] [ -istring ] [ -tn ] filename...

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

DESCRIPTION
    lookbib prints a prompt on the standard  error (unless  the standard
    input is not a terminal), reads from the standard input a line contain-
    ing a set of keywords, searches the bibliographic databases 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 filename to be searched, if an index file-
    name.i created by indxbib(1) exists, then it will be searched instead;
    each index can cover multiple databases.

OPTIONS
    -v   Print the version number.

    -istring
    When searching files for which no index exists, ignore the con-
    tents of fields whose names are in string.

    -tn  Only require the first n characters of keys to be  given.  Ini-
    tially n is 6.

FILES
    filename.i Index files.

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