BIBJOIN 1 "17 February 1997" "Version 0.07" [section 4 of 8]

OPTIONS

To avoid confusion with options, if a filename begins with a hyphen, it must be disguised by a leading absolute or relative directory path, e.g. /tmp/-foo.bib or ./-foo.bib.

-author

Print author information on stderr and exit immediately with a successful status code.

-check-missing

If this option is specified, missing expected key fields will be supplied, with the key field name prefixed with OPT, and the value string set to a pair of question marks, e.g.

  OPTvolume =    "??",

The OPT prefix ensures that the key is ignored by BibTeX, so that the question marks will not appear in an output .bbl file. The GNU Emacs bibtex-mode editing support has functions for removing the OPT prefixes, and so does bibclean(1).

The doubled question marks are distinguished from single ones that might legitimately appear in value strings, and also serve as a convenient regular-expression pattern for bibextract(1), allowing easy preparation of a printed listing of just those entries that have incomplete bibliographic data:

     bibextract '' '[?][?]' BibTeXfiles |  lpr

-copyleft

Print copyright information on stderr and exit immediately with a successful status code.

-copyright

Print copyright information on stderr and exit immediately with a successful status code.

-ignore-characters regexp

Specify a regular expression to define the set of characters to be ignored in value string comparisons. The default is '[^A-Za-z0-9+]'.

-keep-duplicate-values

Instead of discarding the shorter of two value strings that are considered `equal', preserve the shorter of them using the key suffixed with the letter `z', e.g., title and titlez. If such a key already exists, add additional suffixing `z' letters to make the key unique.

-version

Display the bibjoin version number and date on stderr and exit immediately with a successful status code.