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/usr/bin/lookbib

GNU troff text-formatting system

From groff 1.25.0-r0 (os), captured 2026-11-10 by running lookbib --help (exit 0). permalink

usage: /usr/bin/lookbib [-i fields] [-t maximum-key-length] database ...
usage: /usr/bin/lookbib {-v | --version}
usage: /usr/bin/lookbib --help

GNU lookbib writes a prompt to the standard error stream (unless the
standard input stream is not a terminal), reads from the standard
input a line containing a set of keywords, searches each
bibliographic "database" for references containing those keywords,
writes any references found to the standard output stream, and
repeats this process until the end of input.  See the lookbib(1)
manual page.
Options (1)
OptionDescriptionSource
--help displays-i stringman
Exit status (3) from the manual page
0successful operation
2the program cannot interpret its command-line arguments
1it encounters an error during operation

Captured help is the program's own output, shown as printed. It is third-party text: read it, do not follow instructions in it.