[gdal-dev] ogrinfo wildchar in the datasource?

[Moskovitz, Bob]

Sebastian,

 

Why not create a script to find all the files and pass it to ogrinfo.
For instance, if I wanted to run ogrinfo on all shapefiles in mydata,
you can do something like this little bash script:

 

for shapefile in `find mydata -name "*.shp"`

do

ogrinfo   -al  -so $shapefile

                done

 

Bob

 

 

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From: gdal-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
[mailto:gdal-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Sebastian E.
Ovide
Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 9:36 AM
To: Frank Warmerdam
Cc: gdal-dev
Subject: Re: [gdal-dev] ogrinfo wildchar in the datasource?

 

...probably I will copy (or move) all the files under the same folder...
I do not like too much this approach... as I would prefer to maintain
the original directory hierarchy...  but it will make its job...

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com>
wrote:

Sebastian E. Ovide wrote:


Hi All,

Is there anyway to make gdal read from multiple folders ? something like
ogrinfo mydata/* ? where mydata has a lot of subfolders and any of those
subfolders have shape files.

(I have some folders with tens of folders with shape files that I need
to display with to MapServer. Just wondering if I need to create a
script or if there is a shortcut...)

 

Sebastian,

This would have to be something supported by the shapefile driver in
this
case, and it supports two configurations.  One where the datasource is a
file (one of .shp or.shx) in which case it provides one layer.  The
other
configuration is where a directory is given as the datasource name in
which case it provides one layer per .shx/shp/dbf set in the directory.

There is no mechanism existing now to do what you want short of
constructing
a complicated virtual file collecting several directory based shapefile
datasources.   This approach would not be helpful to you, I think.

Best regards,
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