[GRASS-user] Re: How to best access hundreds of orthophotos -- mapserver as WMS server?

[Ivan Shmakov]

>>>>> Hamish  <hamish_b at yahoo.com> writes:

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 > Also the "for MAP in ``" method would need to be changed if there are
 > thousands of maps?

	I don't think so.  Since the `for' command is internal to the
	Shell, there's no command line to be passed to any other
	process, and so there're no command line length limits in force.

	Still, using COMMAND | while read VARN ; do ...; done looks more
	clean to me.

 > this is just the idea. non functional...

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 > i=0
 > for MAP in `g.mlist patt='ortho_*'` ; do

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 > done

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