Using bash to run OGR command line tools

ogrtools.sh

echo "Working directory: $PWD";

echo "List files in a given directory"
for file in C:/GISData/*; do
    echo $file;
done

echo "Get basic info about all shapefiles in a given folder"
for file in C:/GISData/*; do
    if [[ ${file: -4} == ".shp" ]]
then
    ogrinfo -so -al $file;
fi
done

echo "Get basic info about all shapefiles in a given folder recursively"
cd C:/GISData
for file in C:/GISData/**/*; do
    if [[ ${file: -4} == ".shp" ]]
then
    ogrinfo -so $file;
fi
done

echo "Merge shapefiles recursively"
BASEPATH=C:/GISData;
POSTFIX=SRTM;
SHP=output.shp;
cd ${BASEPATH};
for file in ${BASEPATH}/${POSTFIX}*/*; do
    if [[ ${file: -4} == ".shp" ]]
    then
        echo ${file};
        if [[ ! -e ${SHP} ]]; then
            ogr2ogr -f "esri shapefile" ${SHP} ${file}
        else
            ogr2ogr -f "esri shapefile" -update -append ${SHP} ${file}
        fi
    fi
done

echo "Get unique values in a given field recursively"
cd C:/GISData
field='Type'
for file in C:/GISData/Data*/*; do
    if [[ ${file: -4} == ".shp" ]]
then
    filename=$(basename -- "$file");
    ogrinfo -sql "SELECT DISTINCT ${field} FROM ${filename%%.*}" ${file} -nomd;
fi
done

echo "Load a shapefile into a PostGIS database table keeping only certain columns"
DB_NAME=gfm
DB_USER=postgres
SRC_SHAPEFILE="C:/GISData/CountriesEsri/ESRI_Online_World_Countries_Detailed_WGS84.shp"
DEST_NAME=countries
DEST_COLUMNS="COUNTRY,ISO_CC,COUNTRYAFF"
ogr2ogr -f "PostgreSQL" PG:"dbname=${DB_NAME} user=${DB_USER}" ${SRC_SHAPEFILE} -nln ${DEST_NAME} -nlt geometry -lco GEOMETRY_NAME=geom -select ${DEST_COLUMNS}

echo "Export a PostGIS database table into a shapefile"
DB_NAME=gisdata
DB_USER=postgres
DB_PASSWORD=postgres
PORT=5433
cd C:/GISData/PostGISData
ogr2ogr -f "ESRI Shapefile" countries.shp PG:"dbname=${DB_NAME} user=${DB_USER} password=${DB_PASSWORD} port=${PORT}" "countries"