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+bibsh
+=====
+
+This is a tool to manage bibliographic information on the Unix shell.
+`bibsh` uses standard bibtex files and helps organising references in
+categories. It can also donwload bibliographic information from arxiv,
+google scholar, ACM Portal, Citeseer, and the like. `bibsh` can also
+associate one of more files to each reference (e.g., the corresponding
+pdf file and/or preprints or data sets.
+
+`bibsh` is WIP.
+
+The current status of the project is: not yet started.