[Mapserver-users] GDALTINDEX Arg Limit

[woodbri at swoodbridge.com]

Damian,

Ed's way works great. You can also put a list of all the file in a 
text file say: file-list.txt and then

xargs -n 256 gdaltindex < file-list.txt

This is more efficient and a quicker as it only has to open the 
shapefile once for each 256 files in file-list.txt

-Steve W.

On 18 Aug 2003 at 17:53, Ed McNierney wrote:

> Damian -
> 
> You're probably running up against your OS command-line length limit,
> not anything specific to gdaltindex.
> 
> If you give gdaltindex the name of an existing index file, the file(s)
> on the command line will be added to that index.  So you can just
> create a loop to run gdaltindex 2143 times, adding one file each time.
> 
>  - Ed
> 
> Ed McNierney
> President and Chief Mapmaker
> TopoZone.com / Maps a la carte, Inc.
> 73 Princeton Street, Suite 305
> North Chelmsford, MA  01863
> ed at topozone.com
> (978) 251-4242 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Damian Schroder [mailto:map_surfer at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 5:27 PM
> To: Randy James
> Cc: Mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
> Subject: [Mapserver-users] GDALTINDEX Arg Limit
> 
> 
> What is the limit on gdaltindex?
> 
> I have 2143 images to index, but the arg list is too
> long.....
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> TIA
> 
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