Merging Shapefiles From Command Line with GDAL\OGR2OGR

MergeSHP.md

First put all the shapefiles you want merged in one directory than I run this bash script in the folder

#!/bin/bash

file="./final/merge.shp"

for i in $(ls *.shp)
do

      if [ -f "$file" ]
      then
           echo "creating final/merge.shp" 
           ogr2ogr -f 'ESRI Shapefile' -update -append $file $i -nln merge
      else
           echo "merging……"
      ogr2ogr -f 'ESRI Shapefile' $file $i
fi
done

Will put the merged file in a folder named "final" and name it merge.shp. You can change the name of this folder to whatever.

for i in *.shp is preferable

Isn't the two echo inverted?

For future references, I find ogrmerge really handy to use.

Isn't the two echo inverted?

Yes they are...