[gdal-dev] How to add more than one column to a shapefile using ogrinfo

[Jeff McKenna]

On 2016-05-01 5:20 AM, aborruso wrote:
> Hi,
> I have no problem to add a column to a shapefile with:
>
> ogrinfo myfile.shp -sql "ALTER TABLE myfile ADD fieldX integer"
>
> But if I use, the second column is not added to the file.
> ogrinfo myfile.shp -sql "ALTER TABLE myfile ADD fieldX integer(3), fieldY
> integer(3)"
>
> The shell gives me only
> INFO: Open of `myfile.shp'
>        using driver `ESRI Shapefile' successful.
>
> What's wrong in my syntax?
>

I think you have to use 2 ogrinfo statements.

-jeff




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