Pubs organizes your bibliographic documents together with the bibliographic data associated to them and provides command line access to basic and advanced manipulation of your library.
If you use latex, you can automatize references, by running `pubs export > references.bib` each time you update your library, which also fits well as a `makefile` rule.
This ensures that your reference file is always up-to-date; you can cite a paper in your manuscript a soon as you add it in pubs. This means that if you have, for instance, a doi on a webpage, you only need to do:
You can add custom commands to pubs by defining aliases in your configuration file (make sure that the alias plugin is activated in your configuration by using `pubs conf`).
The first command defines a new subcommand: `pubs open --with evince` will be executed when `pubs evince` is typed.
The second starts with a bang: `!`, and is treated as a shell command. If other arguments are provided they are passed to the shell command as in a script. In the example above the `count` alias can take arguments that are be passed to the `pubs list -k` command, hence enabling filters like `pubs count year:2012`.
For autocompletion to work, you need the [argcomplete](https://argcomplete.readthedocs.io) Python package, and Bash 4.2 or newer. For activating *bash* or *tsch* completion, consult the [argcomplete documentation](https://argcomplete.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#global-completion).
For *zsh* completion, the global activation is not supported but bash completion compatibility can be used for pubs. For that, add the following to your `.zshrc`:
You can access the self-documented configuration by using `pubs conf`, and all the commands' help is available with the `--help` option. Did not find an answer to your question? Drop us an issue. We may not answer right away (science comes first!) but we'll eventually look into it.
