[GRASS-user] Dump Vector .dbf Tables?

Hamish hamish_b at yahoo.com
Sat Jan 28 15:28:22 EST 2012


Rich 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?

fwiw, as a generic command line tool `dbview` will
dump a dbf file to ASCII.  `dbview -bt file.dbf`


Hamish


More information about the grass-user mailing list