bibcop(1)

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version 75042 · 6 versions
, in arch rolling, fedora 44, ubuntu resolute

🎀 NAME 🎀

okay so bestie, say hi to bibcop — she's a Style Checker and Fixer of BibTeX Files (the .bib kind) 💖 and she lives in the General Commands Manual, so you'll find her hanging out as bibcop(1). That's literally it, that's the whole girl. periodt. ✨

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

bibcop [<options>] <.bib file path>

like, you hand her some options and a .bib file path and she gets to work 🫶

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so bibcop is a Perl script and her whole job is checking the quality of BibTeX bibliograph files (.bib) and then automatically fixing the inconsistencies she finds 🔥 no cap.

but wait, there's more, she's not just a command line tool — she's also a LaTeX package 👑 which means she can vibe-check the quality of a .bib file during the rendering of a LaTeX document. and every single issue she finds? reported as LaTeX warnings. it's giving multitasking queen 💅

✨ OPTIONS ✨

various options apply, and here's every single one, bestie, I'm not skipping a thing:

  • --version — prints the version of the tool ⭐
  • --help — prints the introduction screen, aka the welcome mat 🎀
  • --fix — autho-fixes all the issues and prints a new content to the console 🔧 (yes the manpage says "autho-fix", we love a typo, it's iconic)
  • --latex — prints everything in LaTeX format 📜
  • --verbose — prints debugging information too, for the nosy girlies 🙈

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Yegor Bugayenko (yegor256@gmail.com) — the icon, the moment, the legend 💜

💀 BUGS 💀

found a bug? don't suffer in silence, bestie. please log issues on the GitHub homepage: https://github.com/yegor256/bibcop/issues 🌈

🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

see bibcop.pdf for more details, iykyk 📄✨

and that's the whole page, fr fr 💖 this was the bibcop(1) manual page, dated 2025/04/28, and honestly? she ate. slay, bye 🫶🎀

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