Converts all shapefiles in input directory to EPSG:4326 GeoJSON files inside of target directory

shpfolder2geojson.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Johnnie Hård
# https://synvinkel.org

geojson=".geojson"

# These are set by calling the script with arguments e.g:
# ./shpfolder2geojson.sh MyShapefileDirectory MyGeojsonDirectory
inputdirectory=$1
outputdirectory=$2

mkdir -p 

for shapefile in ./$inputdirectory/*.shp; do
  file=$(basename $shapefile)
  name=${file%.*}
  targetpath="./${outputdirectory}/"
  echo "converting $file into $name$geojson"
  ogr2ogr -f GeoJSON $targetpath$name$geojson -t_srs EPSG:4326 $shapefile
done