[GRASS-user] Switching locations on-the-fly

[Rich Shepard]

On Tue, 31 Oct 2017, Bartolomei.Chris wrote:

> are you using the gui or in a bash shell?

Chris,

   Both. I'll use the GUI when reprojecting because it's less typing than the
whole path name to the source. Most often I use the shell (bash).

> In the gui, go to Settings, GRASS working environment, Change location and mapset

   Good to know. I've not explored all the GUI menus.

> That will change it all on the fly. You can do this in a batch script as
> well but it's a little tricky - your .bash_history changes with changed
> locations and you need to reset your GISDBASE, MAPSET, and LOCATION
> internal GRASS variables, etc. Let me know if you want those steps and
> I'll dig them out of an old script I have.

   When you can, please share them with me.

Much appreciated,

Rich