Hi Andrea, > I need to clean a shapefile before export in it from a DB table. > > The option "-overwrite" of ogr2ogr is not feasible for me because > AFAIK from the docs > the overwrite option will > "delete the shapefile and recreate it". > Instead I need do not recreate it to maintain the original structure of > dbf. > > So I try to delete the shapefile using this ogrinfo tools, > but using this sintax > > ogrinfo -al -sql "delete from myshape" myshape.shp
Add to the above command: -dialect sqlite And to really clean all records, you need to repack afterwards: ogrinfo -sql "repack myshape" myshape.shp Even -- Spatialys - Geospatial professional services http://www.spatialys.com _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
