[gdal-dev] Selecting features using ogrinfo

[David J. Bakeman]

kungphil wrote:
> Hi
>
> I want to select a feature from a shapefile and extract the extent to then
> clip a raster.  I thought I could use ogrinfo to select an individual
> feature but using the command below the reported extent is for the whole
> shapefile.
>
> ogrinfo -al -where GRID_ID=312 shapefile.shp
>    
First what version of gdal and what OS are you running on?

I ran this on one of my shapefiles I'm running gdal 1.7.3 on linux 
fedora core 14 and got just the matching feature back:

ogrinfo -al -where 'POLYID=5' polys.shp
> Help please!
>
> Phil
>
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