[gdal-dev] ogr2ogr creates empty shape files

[Eli Adam]

Wolfgang,

> how would one prevent OGR2OGR from creating an empty target files
> when a WHERE condition returns no records from the source files? This

I know that there is a COUNT() that can be used in the SELECT part.
I've never tried it in the WHERE part.  You might be able to try that.

> question came up during a batch process where dozens or even hundreds of files
> are converted and further processed. Is there an option besides of
> manually deleting those files?

Depending on how you are doing your batch process, you can use ogrinfo
with COUNT() as a test to decide if you should do the ogr2ogr part.

HTH, Eli

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