Command line manipulation of BibTeX files: Pretty-printing
data bases; Syntactic checks with error recovery; Semantic
checks. Sorting and merging of data bases; Generation of
uniform reference keys according to predefined rules or
according to user specification; Selecting references used
in one publication which are found by analyzing an aux file;
Controlled rewriting of fields utilising regular expressions
to specify the rewriting rules; Macro (String) expansion to
eliminate the need of extra string definitions; Collecting
statistics about one or more data bases.
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