BibTeX interfaces to Structured Query Language (SQL) relational databases (original) (raw)

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This package is available in several functionally-equivalent distribution formats with identical contents: .jar (Java archive),.shar (Unix shar archive),.shar.bz2 (bzip2'ed Unix shar archive),.shar.gz (gzipped Unix shar archive),.shar.xz (xz'ed Unix shar archive),.tar.bz2 (bzip2'ed UNIX tar archive),.tar.gz (gzipped UNIX tar archive),.tar.xz (xz'ed UNIX tar archive),.zip (InfoZip), and .zoo (zoo), together with companion contents listings ending in -lst. Each unpacks into a subdirectory named by the basename of the distribution file, e.g., bibsql-0.00.

On a machine in a nearby building, the downloads, installation, and first successful search took less than 30 seconds with these steps:

wget http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/bibsql/bibsql-0.09.tar.xz
tar xf bibsql-0.09.tar.xz
cd bibsql-0.09
./configure && make all check install
cd ..
wget http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/history-journals.db
bibsql -d history-journals
sqlite> select count(*) from bibtab;
226482

Prerequisites:

Except possibly for very large collections of data (millions of BibTeX entries), the simplest approach is to use SQLite3, a highly-portable public-domain SQL database system that requires only a single platform-independent database file.