[ILUG] Little code, please

[Brendan Halpin]

I have a little sh/awk pair that does that for bibtex:

+-------------------------------------------------------------------
|#! /bin/bash
|gawk -f whole-bib.awk -v text="$1" $2
+-------------------------------------------------------------------

+-------------------------------------------------------------------
|BEGIN {RS = "@"; status=1;}
|
|{if ($0 ~ text) 
|  {
|    print RS $0;
|    status=0;
|  }
|}
|
|END {exit status}
+-------------------------------------------------------------------

'RS = "@"' defines the record separator as @, which starts bibtex
entries -- you need to change it to a blank line if that is what
separates refer entries.

Brendan

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