<div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The option has nothing to do with the file type. The file types are inferred from the extensions.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div>Sorry the option is confusing.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div>All pdal arguments can be specified using options, even if they also support positional behavior. In this case, the following are equivalent:</div><div><br></div><div>pdal merge in1.las in2.txt in1.bpf out.txt</div><div>pdal merge -f "in1.las in2.txt in1.bpf out.txt"</div><div>pdal merge --files "in1.las in2.txt in1.bpf out.txt"</div><div>pdal merge --files="in1.las in2.txt in1.bpf out.txt"</div><div><br></div><div>Hope that helps,</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Apr 19, 2019, 6:15 PM Nicolas Cadieux <<a href="mailto:nicolas.cadieux@archeotec.ca" target="_blank">nicolas.cadieux@archeotec.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr">Hi,</div><div dir="ltr">If you do use -f, I imagine (educated guess) that the file format will be a straight text file you can write with notepad, vim or notepad++. Normally, these things have one file name on each line like:</div><div dir="ltr">C:\lidar\1.las</div><div dir="ltr">C:\lidar\2.las</div><div dir="ltr">...</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">If that does not work, try a front slash /. If that does not work, it could be the line end character. They are different on windows or Unix based systems.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Using PDAL merge with a very long list may crash on a Windows prompt if the list is too long.</div><div dir="ltr">Nicolas</div><div dir="ltr"><br>Le 19 avr. 2019 à 16:02, Andrew Bell <<a href="mailto:andrew.bell.ia@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">andrew.bell.ia@gmail.com</a>> a écrit :<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">You don't need to use the -f option explicitly. You just provide a list of filenames:<br><br>pdal merge in1.las in2.las in3.las out.las</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 3:51 PM Ramirez, Gabriel <<a href="mailto:Gabriel.Ramirez@ventura.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">Gabriel.Ramirez@ventura.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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