astroph

ifmatch -pattern /^[^\-].*[\dv\.][\dv\.][\dv\.][\dv\.][\dv\.]$/ -string %s -redirect True -then http://arxiv.org/abs/%s -else {url aph %s -year ${year} -from ${from} -to ${to} -author ${author} -abstract ${abstract}}

Searches for or goes directly to astro-ph articles

If the first argument ends with 5 numerical chars (or . and v in it)
 it is recognized as arxiv identified it will direcly go the the article url.
Example: astroph astro-ph/0703470
Example: astroph 0704.2444

Otherwise it will execute the 'aph' command to search for the article. (See man aph for more info)
Example: astroph Cosmological contraints to radiative dark matter decay
Example: astroph -year 2007 -author Zhang

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