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class=352320612-10052010>But -al (without -so, "summary only") is
listing all the features of all the layers. It just happens to be
that shapefile always has only one layer. Have a try with Mapinfo tab file
or some database with lots of tables and you will notice that -al option does go
through all the layers.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=352320612-10052010>-Jukka-</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>Jan Hartmann <SPAN
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<DT>The manual page says:<BR>
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<DT><B>-al</B>:
<DD>List all features of all layers (used instead of having to give layer
names as arguments). </DD></DL>This is not a really clear answer for Antonio's
question: when I read this the first time, I thought this flag was meant to
display information about more layers, not to get more information about one
layer. Especially difficult when English is not your first language and you
are not Finnish :-)<BR><BR>Jan <BR><BR>On 05/10/10 13:18, Jukka Rahkonen
wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE cite=mid:loom.20100510T131102-344@post.gmane.org type="cite"><PRE wrap="">António Rocha <antonio.rocha <at> deimos.com.pt> writes:
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<BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><PRE wrap="">Greetings
I need to obtain a little bit more information regarding a Shapefile. I
have done ogrinfo <filename> but I only obtained:
</PRE></BLOCKQUOTE><PRE wrap="">Hi,
What most users propably want to know about shapefiles first comes with
ogrinfo -al -so file.shp
Perhaps the manual page <A class=moz-txt-link-freetext href="http://gdal.org/ogrinfo.html">http://gdal.org/ogrinfo.html</A> could give also this
information?
-Jukka Rahkonen-
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