ogr2ogr with file list

[Yar Doroshenko]

Bill,

I'm using command prompt on Windows XP machine.




On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 13:49:09 -0400, Bill Binko <bill at BINKO.NET> wrote:

>What Operating System (and which Shell -- if Linux/Unix) are you using?
>
>If you're using Linux and bash (or something similar), you can do this:
>
>(Assuming list.in has a list of input filenames in it)
>
>for i in `cat list.in`; do ogr2ogr $i output_$i -t_srs WGS84 ; done
>
>Probably easier for automation would be to put all of your "input"
>shapefiles in an input directory and create an empty output directory.
> Then run something like this:
>
>for i in input/*.shp; do ogr2ogr $i output/`basename $i` -t_srs
>WGS84; done
>
>
>Hope this helps.
>Bill
>
>On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Yar Doroshenko wrote:
>
>> Hi Guys,
>>
>> I'm working on automating my shapefile coordinate conversions. I know how
>> to do single file conversion:
>>
>> ogr2ogr input.shp output.shp -t_srs WGS84
>>
>> Now, can I automate the process? Let's say I have a list of shapefiles
that
>> I want to convert, would I do something like:
>>
>> for %f in (path_here\list.in) do ogr2ogr %f
>>
>> I tried this one in many different ways, but I do get errors.
>>
>> Would anyone have a correct syntax for multiple file conversions?
>>
>> Thank you
>>
>> Yar
>>
>>