[gdal-dev] Updating shapefile "fields" name with ogr2ogr

[Paolo Corti]

On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 7:50 PM, Even Rouault
<even.rouault at mines-paris.org> wrote:
>
> ogrinfo CHEMIN.shp -sql "ALTER TABLE CHEMIN RENAME COLUMN prec_alti TO foo"
>

really nice, I was not aware of this.

Another option I have been always using is:
ogr2ogr -sql 'select field1, field2, fieldn, ..., oldname as newname
from input' output.shp input.shp

but this way we need to regenerate the shapefile
best regards
p

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