Add column with source filename from folder of shapefiles. Requires GDAL 1.10dev, my attempt to drop .shp extension isn't working - but overall, works.

addfilenamecol.sh

for f in *.shp;

do

name=${f%.shp}

/Users/you/gdal_trunk/bin/ogrinfo $f -sql "ALTER TABLE $name ADD COLUMN filename character(21)"
/Users/you/gdal_trunk/bin/ogrinfo $f -dialect SQLite -sql "UPDATE $name SET filename = '$f'"
done;