Re: refdbib: multiple occurence of the same reference ends up in multiple entries in .bib file

On 02/22/10 11:33, Markus Hoenicka wrote:
> "O. Hartmann" <[email protected]> was heard to say:
>
>> Dear Sirs,
>> I have some trouble in creating my bibliography using a refdb-database.
>> My text is spread over several files, connected via \input{} statements
>> in a main head-file. Running latex/pdflatex on the head file, creates an
>> .aux files, which is used by refdbib as input. refdbib then retrieves
>> for each entry the appropriate reference from the SQL DB (postgresql 8.4
>> server on a FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE platform) - but there a multiple
>> occurences of the same reference, exactly as many as \cite't in the main
>> text. Is this a feature or a bug?
>
> This might be a documentation bug. If you use refdbib directly instead
> of the runbib script, you have to eliminate duplicates from the .aux
> file manually. The runbib script does this by passing the contents of
> the .aux file through sort and uniq. You can pipe the results directly
> into refdbib. Have a look at the runbib script as a guidance (search for
> the block of code starting with "### BibTeX"), or use that script
> instead of doing it manually. I'll add a note about this problem to the
> RefDB manual.
>
> regards,
> Markus
>
>

All right,
I got it. Thanks for the update and fast help, hope others would 
appreciate that hint in the doc as well.

Regards,
Oliver

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