Command LIne Papers(CLIP), a reference manager.

Only few of the possible options and commands are listed here, Please refer to wiki for a full list of features

If you haven't setup Go before 😲, you need to first set a GOPATH (see https://golang.org/doc/code.html#GOPATH).

To fetch and build the code:

$ go get github.com/strivetobelazy/clip/...

This will also build the command line tool clip into $GOPATH/bin (assumed to be in your PATH already).

clip [-version][-help] <commands> [<options>]

Note: Multiple word command-options should be wrapped in double quotes. Commands such as search and add (for add when -source flag is given: please refer to [supported sources](Supported sources)) require an active internet connection. A flag can be given with a - or -- (ex: -string is the same as --string). Options to a flag can be separated by a space or an = (ex: -string "electron" is the same as -string="electron")

Simple Usage

clip search -string "electron"

Tuning search with more options

clip search -source arxive -string "electron scattering" -offset 0 \
-results 5 -filter "cat" -prefix "hep-th"

findout more details about a specific information(ex:doi, title, author, etc,.)

clip search -source crossref -string "doi/of/any/paper" -match doi

get information in a bibtex format and append it to a file

clip search -string "title-of-a-paper" -match title -bibtex -file mybib.bib

One word strings need not to be in double quotes

Note: For search, -source flag is active on default with value "arxiv"

lookup command performs all the operations of search command but on a local clip repository or a folder.

Simple Usage

clip lookup -string "DOI/of/a/paper" -match doi

Tuning lookup with more options

clip lookup -string "title-of-a-paper" -bibtex -file mybib.bib

clip by default doesn't have any external dependencies. However the following enhancements are provided upon compiling clip with additional external packages

Compiling clip with pdf support will add pdf command which perform additional tasks and operations on local pdf files(see wiki). For this functionality lazyclip relies on poppler-utils which is an open source package and can be installed using the following:

for Linux:

sudo apt-get install poppler-utils

for Mac:

brew install poppler-utils

Compiling clip with fzf support will bring in compatibility with fzf package

The -source flag takes following values:

• google : google, if you couldn't find anything in any other sources.
• crossref : CrossRef, an exhaustive academic search engine
• arxiv : arXiv, an archive of pre-prints in various scientific fields
• dblp : DBLP, a database of Computer Science publications
• doi.org : doi.org, a DOI resolver
• dissemin : Dissemin, a database tracking the open access status of scholarly articles

Note: If you like to see support for an other source, please open an isuue or contact us via email.