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#!/bin/bash
# loop through all of the shapefiles in the directory and act on them
# http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/FAQVector#HowcanImergehundredsofShapefiles
# http://stackoverflow.com/questions/965053/extract-filename-and-extension-in-bash
# !IMPORTANT: OGR 1.9 for direct to PostGIS support, linestring-multilinestring, and character encoding support.
if [ $# -ne 1 ]; then
echo "USAGE: ./import.sh <in_dir_path>"