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color:#1F497D'>Sebastian,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Why not create a script to find all the files and pass it to
ogrinfo. For instance, if I wanted to run ogrinfo on all shapefiles in
mydata, you can do something like this little bash script:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> gdal-dev-bounces@lists.osgeo.org
[mailto:gdal-dev-bounces@lists.osgeo.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Sebastian E.
Ovide<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 26, 2010 9:36 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Frank Warmerdam<br>
<b>Cc:</b> gdal-dev<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [gdal-dev] ogrinfo wildchar in the datasource?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>...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...<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Frank Warmerdam <<a
href="mailto:warmerdam@pobox.com">warmerdam@pobox.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Sebastian E. Ovide wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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Hi All,<br>
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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.<br>
<br>
(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...)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Sebastian,<br>
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This would have to be something supported by the shapefile driver in this<br>
case, and it supports two configurations. One where the datasource is a<br>
file (one of .shp or.shx) in which case it provides one layer. The other<br>
configuration is where a directory is given as the datasource name in<br>
which case it provides one layer per .shx/shp/dbf set in the directory.<br>
<br>
There is no mechanism existing now to do what you want short of constructing<br>
a complicated virtual file collecting several directory based shapefile<br>
datasources. This approach would not be helpful to you, I think.<br>
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Best regards,<br>
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