bibtex

A Golang BibTeX package and collection of related command line utilities.

bibtex is a golang package for working with BibTeX files. It includes bibfilter and bibmerge which are a command line utilities for working with BibTeX files (e.g. removing comments before importing into JabRef, merge bib lists). bibtex also can be compiled to JavaScript via GopherJS. A web version of bibfiter and bibmerge commands is available in the webapp directory. The command line utilities and webapp use the same bibtex golang package for implementation.

Compiled versions are provided for Linux (amd64), Mac OS X (amd64), Windows 10 (amd64) and Raspbian (ARM7). See https://github.com/caltechlibrary/bibtex/releases.

bibfilter

Output my.bib file without comment entries

  bibfilter -exclude=comment my.bib

Output only articles from my.bib

    bibfilter -include=article my.bib

Output only articles and conference proceedings from my.bib

    bibfilter -include=article,inproceedings my.bib

bibmerge

Output a new bibtex file based on the contents of two other bibtex files.

Join of two bibtex files

    bibmerge -join mybib1.bib mybib2.bib

Intersection of two bibtex files

    bibmerge -intersect mybib1.bib mybib2.bib

Difference (A - B), includes items in A but not found in B of two bibtex files.

    bibmerge -diff mybib1.bib mybib2.bib

Excluse difference (symmetric difference, inverse of intersection) of two bibtex files

    bibmerge -exclusive mybib1.bib mybib2.bib

Symmetric versus asymmetric differences

(asymmetric) (A - B)
- Content is in A but NOT in B
- Content unique to B would not be included
(symmetric) (A - B) Union (B - A)
- Inverse of the the intersection of A and B
- Content unique to A and the content unique to B are included