BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ How to print bib database and keys?

[pakogaban]

I want to print all entries in my .bib file with keys listed besides every entry.

For example, if I have in my .bib file something like that:
@article{key,
author = "Name",
title = "Title",
year = 2000
}

can I get it printed in pdf file like this:
[key] Name.Title.2000.

I need it because there are many entries in my bibliography database and it's not very comfortable to look in the .bib file for the keys when I want to cite something. Or maybe there is some better way to solve this problem?

[arwintcher]

Are you just using your bibliography database as a single text file? Perhaps you should try something like JabRef.

[gmedina]

Hi pakogaban,

you could use the showkeys package. Assuming that your biliographical database is biblio.bib you can create a .tex document like the following (I will call it test.tex):

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\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{showkeys}

\begin{document}

\nocite{*}

\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{biblio}

\end{document}

and then process it in the standard way:

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pdflatex test
bibtex test
pdflatex test
pdflatex test

The obtained pdf document will contain all the items of the file biblio.bib with their corresponding keys nicely boxed.

[pakogaban]

Thank you, gmedina, that's what I wanted!