[gdal-dev] ogrinfo wildchar in the datasource?

[Frank Warmerdam]

Sebastian E. Ovide wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> Is there anyway to make gdal read from multiple folders ? something like 
> ogrinfo mydata/* ? where mydata has a lot of subfolders and any of those 
> subfolders have shape files.
> 
> (I have some folders with tens of folders with shape files that I need 
> to display with to MapServer. Just wondering if I need to create a 
> script or if there is a shortcut...)

Sebastian,

This would have to be something supported by the shapefile driver in this
case, and it supports two configurations.  One where the datasource is a
file (one of .shp or.shx) in which case it provides one layer.  The other
configuration is where a directory is given as the datasource name in
which case it provides one layer per .shx/shp/dbf set in the directory.

There is no mechanism existing now to do what you want short of constructing
a complicated virtual file collecting several directory based shapefile
datasources.   This approach would not be helpful to you, I think.

Best regards,
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