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Merge a directory of shapefiles into one shapefile
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merge_shp.sh
#!/bin/bash
mkdir merged;
for f in *.shp;
do
if [ -f merged/merged.shp ]
printf $f
then
ogr2ogr -f "ESRI Shapefile" -update -append merged/merged.shp "$f" -nln Merged
else
ogr2ogr -f "ESRI Shapefile" merged/merged.shp "$f"
fi;
done;
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