[GRASS-user] Original location: Hot to create from the command line ?

[Markus Neteler]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 12:06 PM, "Peter Löwe" <peter.loewe at gmx.de> wrote:
>
>> > is there an (easy) recipe to create a completely new location from
>> > scratch without using a GUI ?
>> >
>> > To be precise: If GRASS is started for the first time in "-text" mode
>> > (=no GUI) ** without having a sample location like Spearfish or North
>> > Carolina around**, how can location parameters (projection, extent,
>> > EPSG...) be handed over to set up a very first location ?
>>
>> Just type in the name of the location you want to create and GRASS will
>> prompt you for the parameters.
>>
>> Moritz
>
> That's true. But is there also a way to provide the parameters _without_ interaction
> with the user (-> GRASS scripting & automation) ?

Sure.
An older version of a shell script is here:
 http://www.grassbook.org/examples_menu2nd.php
 -> create_location.sh

Keeping in mind
http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_and_Shell#GRASS_Batch_jobs
it should be even easier to write it.

Markus