Bash command using variables

Question

I want to batch covert files in a directory with a program. I want news files to keep old names, apart from the new extension. To illustrate, a single conversion would go like this:

ogr2ogr -f "GeoJSON" world_borders.json world_borders.shp

(meaning, program options out-file in-file)

Now, I want to do this with all .shp files in a directory, to get .json files. How do I create a bash script like this?

I already did

for file in *.shp ; 
do ogr2ogr -f "GeoJSON" "${file}" "${file}".json; 
done

But it didnt work. Why?

choroba · Accepted Answer · 2014-05-09 14:52:33Z

3

Use parameter expansion to remove the extension from a file name:

#! /bin/bash
dir=$1
for file in "$dir"/*.shp ; do
    ogr2ogr -f GeoJSON "${file%.shp}".json "$file"
done

Save to ogr.sh, make executable, call with

ogr.sh /path/to/dir

answered May 9, 2014 at 14:52

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tonino.j Over a year ago

I added a comment of what I did and it didnt work. Would you care to comment on that?

choroba Over a year ago

@toninoj: In your first example, it's output input. In your update, it's input output.

William Pursell Over a year ago

@toninoj Also, what you did is not what choroba suggested.

choroba Over a year ago

@toninoj: It seems you didn't provide the dir argument.

choroba Over a year ago

@toninoj: You have to add code to do that. You can check the source - there's nothing special about $1 being empty. Or, just run it in the correct dir with ogr.sh ..

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