[gdal-dev] Re: ogrinfo wildchar in the datasource?

[Jukka Rahkonen]

Sebastian E. Ovide <sebastian.ovide <at> gmail.com> writes:

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> 
> 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.
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> (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...)

Hi,

I can't say about gdal but because you want it for Mapserver so just create an
ogrtileindex with write_absolute_paths options to index all your shapefiles from
their current directories. It may need a tiny little script or some manual work
to combine per directory tileindex shapefiles but it should not be very laborous.

-Jukka Rahkonen-