[gdal-dev] ogrinfo wildchar in the datasource?

[Sebastian E. Ovide]

...probably I will copy (or move) all the files under the same folder... I
do not like too much this approach... as I would prefer to maintain the
original directory hierarchy...  but it will make its job...

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com>wrote:

> 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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