[GRASS-user] Dump Vector .dbf Tables?

Markus Neteler neteler at osgeo.org
Sat Jan 28 14:15:13 EST 2012


On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 8:00 PM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
>  I have some shapefiles whose attribute tables have data I'd like to add to
> the postgres database table. Looking at the GUI database menu I don't see a
> module to dump the .dbf file contents to an ASCII file. Is there a way to do
> this?

If they are still SHAPE files, it is unrelated to GRASS, hence ogr2ogr
will help.

If they are already in GRASS, then use

http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/manuals/html64_user/db.out.ogr.html

Markus


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