The way most bibliographic software process .bib files is very annoying; they mess up with fields relentlessly. Despite that, they offer some very interesting capabilities, such as auto lookup. This is a way around that.
The idea of this script is to consolidate all the bibliographic data one has in .bib files spread around a folder, consolidate it in a unique file ready to be imported and treated in some of the available programs such as mendeley and zotero.
no assumptions, non destructive behaviour
article book inproceedings misc collection unpublished incollection online report thesis
- info like year and month is consolidated in date field, if clean is set
a article b book r reference
key: year_first author last name_[number]
path: [+,!] a|b|r key [short]title
! -> reviewed and linked with reviewed entry # -> linked
date: 2009-01-31 filename to path: : -> --
bibrust or bibrust path/to/folder -> scan