[Gdal-dev] 100 byte shx files

Sorokine, Alexandre sorokina at ornl.gov
Tue Feb 20 16:29:28 EST 2007


See my comments below...

> > I was converting the projection of shapefiles from the same directoy
> > using the command:
> >
> > ogr2ogr -t_srs proj.wkt . /media/shapefiles/
> >
> > What I found is that all resulting shape files were 
> corrupted having shx
> > file just 100 bytes long (basically this is a header with 
> no content).
> > Convereting shapefiles one by one works fine.  Is it a bug 
> or am I doing
> > something wrong?  I am using gdal gdal-1.3.2.
> >
> > --
> > Alex
> 
> how about using a for loop?
> 
> for x in *.shp ; do ogr2ogr ... ; done

Yes, this is what I did to get the job done.  But I still wonder if the
100 byte shx files is an expected behavior or not.

--
Alex




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