[postgis-users] bulk conversion from shapefiles

[Dylan Keon]

strk wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 12:06:28AM -0700, Michael Mallete wrote:
> 
>>hello sir! would you it be ok if i ask you to share
>>the script? or at list give some hints? it would be of
>>great help. i'd do anything just to avoid manually
>>importing 900 shapefiles. :)
>>
>>thank you so much! have a nice day! :)
> 
> 
> for shapefile in `find . -name '*.shp'`; do
> 	shp2pgsql $shapefile .....
> done

You could also do a one-liner:

find . -name '*.shp' -exec shp2pgsql {} \;