[Gdal-dev] gdaltindex on numerous files

[Howard Butler]

Tom,

Is it possible xargs can do the trick to fix the 'argument list is too long'?

See <http://freebooks.by.ru/view/ShellProgIn24h/31480122.htm>

I don't know if gdaltindex can do absolute paths, but if you want to 
create custom tileindexes in any special way, you might look at 
Sean's scripts from the OSGIS '05 Hacks workshop. 
<http://hobu.biz/software/OSGIS_Hacks/python_OSGIS_hacks_aggregation.pdf>

Howard

At 10:08 AM -0400 6/14/06, Kralidis,Tom [Burlington] wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm trying to create a MapServer tileindex via gdaltindex, where I 
>would like to store the absolute paths to each raster image in the 
>output tileindex.
>
>Trying this gives me the following error:
>
>$ gdaltindex srtm-index2 $PWD/*.tif
>-bash: /usr/local/bin/gdaltindex: Argument list too long
>
>Does gdaltindex take a filelist as an argument?  Trying:
>
>
>$ gdaltindex srtm-index2 < some_file
>$ gdaltindex srtm-index2 some_file
>
>...didn't work.
>
>Any advice would be much appreciated.
>
>Thanks
>
>..Tom
>
>
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