09-25-2018
What operating system are you using?
What shell are you using?
What is the twist? What you have so briefly described seems to have been asked and answered several times before in this forum.
What have you tried and where are you falling short of reaching your goal?
Without a sample pair of input files and a sample of the output you hope to produce from those input files, it is impossible to guess at whether you're working with fixed length fields in binary files, variable length fields separated by whitespace in a text files, unspecified fields in some kind of databases or spreadsheets, etc.
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lookbib
LOOKBIB(1) General Commands Manual LOOKBIB(1)
NAME
lookbib - search bibliographic databases
SYNOPSIS
lookbib [ -v ] [ -istring ] [ -tn ] filename...
It is possible to have whitespace between a command line option and its parameter.
DESCRIPTION
lookbib prints a prompt on the standard error (unless the standard input is not a terminal), reads from the standard input a line contain-
ing a set of keywords, searches the bibliographic databases filename... for references containing those keywords, prints any references
found on the standard output, and repeats this process until the end of input. For each database filename to be searched, if an index
filename.i created by indxbib(1) exists, then it will be searched instead; each index can cover multiple databases.
OPTIONS
-v Print the version number.
-istring
When searching files for which no index exists, ignore the contents of fields whose names are in string.
-tn Only require the first n characters of keys to be given. Initially n is 6.
FILES
filename.i Index files.
SEE ALSO
refer(1), lkbib(1), indxbib(1)
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