[gdal-dev] How clean a shapefile using ogrinfo

[Andrea Peri]

Hi Even,
thx for your help and for the "repack" hint.

A.


2016-08-12 17:22 GMT+02:00 Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com>:
> Hi Andrea,
>
>> I need to clean a shapefile before export in it from a DB table.
>>
>> The option "-overwrite" of ogr2ogr is not feasible for me because
>> AFAIK from the docs
>> the overwrite option will
>> "delete the shapefile and recreate it".
>> Instead I need do not recreate it to maintain the original structure of
>> dbf.
>>
>> So I try to delete the shapefile using this ogrinfo tools,
>> but using this sintax
>>
>> ogrinfo -al -sql "delete from myshape" myshape.shp
>
> Add to the above command: -dialect sqlite
>
> And to really clean all records, you need to repack afterwards:
>
> ogrinfo -sql "repack myshape" myshape.shp
>
>
> Even
>
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