[GRASS-user] Import .kml with v.in.ogr; GRASS-6.5.svn

[Tyler Smith]

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 5:22 PM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 1 May 2012, Tyler Smith wrote:
>
>> I think the quotes around "/home/rshepard/projects/data/*.kml" are
>> preventing the asterisk from being expanded as a wildcard. Try removing
>> them.
>
> Tyler,
>
>   Good catch! That's part of the problem. Now GRASS cannot replace the
> variable name, $file, with the actual file name:
>
> WARNING: Illegal vector map name <$file>. Must start with a letter.
> ERROR: Vector map name is not SQL compliant
>
>   It's probably referring to the output file name variable. Since there's no
> reason to have the GRASS map name different from the DSN, I need to re-learn
> BASH syntax for variable references.

Yes, you've wrapped the output file name in single quotes. That
prevents all expansions, wildcards and variables. I don't think you
need quotes at all.

Cheers,

Tyler