BibtexQuery is a command-line utility that reads in a bibtex file and performs simple queries. A query is a string
of the form q.querystring
, where q
is either a
for author, t
for title, k
for key, c
for class (i.e. book, article, etc), or w
for keywords, and querystring
is a string (without spaces). BibtexQuery reads in a bibtex file, and returns the entries that match all the
queries given as command-line parameters. Note that the entries are processed in such a way that strips diacritics,
spaces and special characters before the queries are performed. In addition, the list of authors is normalized to
firstnamelastname
. Hence, for example, Dupuis, Frédéric
will match the query a.ericdup
.
Note that currently, only a subset of the official Bibtex format is supported; features such as predefined strings and concatenation using #
are not supported. It is unclear whether this
will ever be supported in the future; I only wrote this to learn how to do "normal programming" in Lean 4, and I don't personally use these Bibtex features.
Make sure you have a working Lean 4 installation (see here for how to do that), and then type lake build
in the main directory. The
executable should appear in .lake/build/bin
.