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r.unpack(1grass) GRASS User's Manual r.unpack(1grass)

NAME

r.unpack - Imports a GRASS specific raster archive file (packed with r.pack) as a raster map

KEYWORDS

raster, import, copying

SYNOPSIS

r.unpack
r.unpack --help
r.unpack [-op] input=name.pack [output=name] [--overwrite] [--help] [--verbose] [--quiet] [--ui]

Flags:


Override projection check (use current projects’s CRS)
Assume that the dataset has same coordinate reference system as the current project

Print projection information of input pack file and exit

Allow output files to overwrite existing files

Print usage summary

Verbose module output

Quiet module output

Force launching GUI dialog

Parameters:


Name of input pack file

Name for output raster map (default: taken from input file internals)

DESCRIPTION

r.unpack allows unpacking raster maps packed by r.pack.

NOTES

Name of the raster map is determined by default from pack file internals. Optionally the name can be given by output parameter. Currently only 2D raster maps are supported.

EXAMPLE

Pack up raster map aspect into aspect.pack file. 

r.pack input=aspect

the raster map can be afterwards unpacked by 

r.unpack input=aspect.pack

SEE ALSO

r.pack, r.in.gdal, v.pack

AUTHORS

Original Bash script written by Hamish Bowman, Otago University, New Zealand as GRASS AddOns
Converted to Python and updated for GRASS 7 by Martin Landa, CTU in Prague, Czech Republic

SOURCE CODE

Available at: r.unpack source code (history)

Latest change: Tuesday Nov 11 15:17:03 2025 in commit: 59f1608a354cb5e6c1a7a5cc477633b8632d1774

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