[GRASS-user] v.to.rast shell script

[John C. Tull]

Hamish:

On Sep 19, 2008, at 6:45 PM, Hamish wrote:

> John  Tull wrote:
>> I was wondering if anyone could suggest a simple shell script to
>> automate the process of running v.to.rast on all layers in
>> a single vector in GRASS?
>
> sure, just a bash for loop + g.mlist will do it:
>
> for MAP in `g.mlist vect` ; do
>   echo v.to.rast in="$MAP" out="`echo $MAP | tr '[:lower:]'  
> '[:upper:]'`"
> done
>
> in that example the other v.to.rast options would have to be  
> constant of
> course.
>
> To avoid mistakes I like to capitalize a map name if it is going to be
> both a vector and raster map. Probably there is some simple sed  
> command
> to just do the first character. otherwise just use "out=$MAP".


Thank you for your quick response. This, with the addition of  
'type=vect' will give me a list of vectors, but I was wanting a list  
of layers within a single vector. I am guessing there might be a way  
to cajole v.info into doing this, but am not sure how at this point.

Thanks,
John