BibTool - BibTeX file manipulation tool
bibtool [options] [files]
This manual is not meant to be exhaustive. The complete
documentation for BibTool can be found in the BibTool Manual.
BibTeX provides an easy to use means to integrate citations and
bibliographies into LaTeX documents. But the user is left alone with the
management of the BibTeX files. BibTool is intended to fill this gap.
BibTool allows the manipulation of BibTeX files which goes beyond the
possibilities - and intentions - of BibTeX.
BibTool manipulates BibTeX database files through the
command line front-end bibtool which accepts numerous options.
Modifications are performed through resource instructions that allow the
modification of the various internal parameters determining the behavior of
BibTool; resource instructions can be grouped in resource files. The
original BibTool distribution contains a sufficient set of resource
file samples to perform basic, relevant manipulations.
bibtool accepts the following options.
- -R
- Immediately evaluate the instructions from the default resource file.
- -r rsc_file
- Immediately evaluate the instructions from the resource file
rsc_file.
- -- rsc_cmd
- Evaluate the resource instruction rsc_cmd.
- -i bib_file
- Add the BibTeX database file bib_file to the list of input files.
If -i omitted the file name may not start with a -. If absent stdin
is taken to read from. Input files should follow the bibtex(1)
conventions.
- -o output_file
- Direct output to the file output_file. If absent the output is
directed to stdout.
- -q
- Suppress warnings. Errors can not be suppressed.
- -v
- Enable informative messages on the activities of BibTool.
- -s
- Enable sorting of entries.
- -S
- Enable sorting of entries in reverse order.
- -A type
- Determine key disambuguation; type in 0, a, A.
- -x aux_file
- Extract the entries from the auxiliary (.aux) LaTeX aux_file
file.
- -X regex
- Select certain entries according to the regular expression
regex.
- -c
- Turn on the additional selection of crossreferenced entries.
- -f key_format
- Set the specification for key generation to key_format.
- -F
- Turn on key generation.
- -k
- Generate short format keys.
- -K
- Generate long format keys.
- -d
- Find and mark (or delete) entries with identical sort keys.
- -m mac_file
- Write the macro definitions to the file mac_file (- is
stdout).
- -M mac_file
- Write the used macro definitions to the file mac_file (- is
stdout).
- -h
- Print short help and exit.
- -V
- Print version and exit.
- -#
- Print statistics about all known entry types (long).
- -@
- Print statistics about the used entry types only (short).
- BIBINPUTS
- Search path for BibTeX database (.bib) files.
- BIBTOOL
- Search path for BibTool resource (.rsc) files.
- BIBTOOLRSC
- List of resource file names separated by colon.
- ./.bibtoolrsc
- The default current directory BibTool resource file.
- ~/.bibtoolrsc
- The default individual BibTool resource file.
- /usr/share/bibtool/*.rsc
- The BibTool resource files included in the original distribution.
- /usr/share/doc/bibtool/bibtool.pdf
- The BibTool Manual.
- /usr/share/doc/bibtool/ref_card.pdf
- The BibTool Quick Reference Card.
Some arrays are allocated statically which may result in an
overflow.
Most memory is allocated but not returned to the OS: A garbage collection
algorithm might be integrated in a future release.
This man page is updated only occasionally, so it is very likely out of date.
For complete, current documentation, refer to the BibTool Manual
which is distributed as LaTeX source file (bibtool.tex) in the
original BibTool source distribution.
BibTool is designed and maintained by Gerd Neugebauer.