Shell script to merge a list of SHP files from a set of directories

mergeSHP.sh

#!/bin/bash

ogr2ogr -a_srs EPSG:4326 out.shp

directories=$(find . -type d)

for directory in $directories
do

files=$(find $directory -name '*.shp')

for file in $files
do

echo $file
ogr2ogr -append -update out.shp $file -f "Esri Shapefile"

done

done