findbib – Find bibliographic details from SPIRES

Find­bib is a shell script that en­ables the user to avoid writ­ing BibTeX database en­tries for pa­pers that ap­pear on SPIRES: if the ci­ta­tion key is in SPIRES stan­dard form, or is an arXiv preprint num­ber, the bib­li­o­graphic de­tails are re­trieved on-line.
A com­pan­ion script, ad­dbib, adds the in­for­ma­tion to an ex­ist­ing BibTeX database.