[GRASS-user] Import .kml with v.in.ogr; GRASS-6.5.svn

[Rich Shepard]

On Tue, 1 May 2012, Imre Bornemisza wrote:

> for file in $(ls -1 /home/rshepard/projects/data/*.kml); do
> # $() - command substitution
> v.in.ogr dsn="$file" out="$file"; done
> # out='$file' - it means that you get a file with the name "dollarfile"

Imre,

   I, too, was suspicious of the single quotes (may need to be backticks
instead). Replacing them with double quotes in the output file name still
throws an illegal file name error:

Illegal filename. Character </> not allowed.
ERROR: </home/rshepard/projects/data/wetlands.kml> is an illegal file name

   Back to the ORA Bash book.

Rich