[GRASS-user] Script help

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I hope this is a simple question!

I have a large number of shapefiles to import, but I'm a scripting newcomer.

Where do I locate the Grass-GIS 6 example scripts to work out how to import them in bulk rather than one-by-one? All I'm looking for is to say: For file <name>.shp create vector <name> through a whole directory.

Richard C

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Richard Chirgwin wrote:

I have a large number of shapefiles to import, but I'm a scripting newcomer.

Where do I locate the Grass-GIS 6 example scripts to work out how to
import them in bulk rather than one-by-one? All I'm looking for is to
say: For file <name>.shp create vector <name> through a whole directory.

assuming the location matches the .prj projection info,

for FILE in *.shp ; do
  v.in.ogr dsn="$FILE" out=`basename $FILE .shp`
done

If you are confident that the projection matches but the .prj files are missing
use the -o flag.

Hamish

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