Merge many Shape files together using ogr2ogr

shape_merge

#!/bin/bash

dest_dir="output"
dest_layer="shape_file"

mkdir -p "${dest_dir}"

i=0
for src_file in source/*.shp ; do
    echo "Reading ${src_file}"

    if [ $i -eq 0 ] ; then
        ogr2ogr "${dest_dir}/${dest_layer}.shp" "${src_file}"
    else
        ogr2ogr -update -append "${dest_dir}/${dest_layer}.shp" "${src_file}" -nln "${dest_layer}"
    fi

    i=$((i+1))
done

echo ""
echo "Output: ${dest_dir}/${dest_layer}.shp"