NAME¶

shpinfo - Displays basic information for a given shapefile

##SYNOPSIS shpinfo shapefile

##DESCRIPTION Displays basic information for a given shapefile, like shapefile type, number of objects and its extents.

##OPTIONS

shapefile

The name of an existing shapefile.

##EXAMPLE shpinfo testpolygon

Info for testpolygon
Polygon(5), 1 Records in file
File Bounds: (         100000,        6000000)


        (         250000,        7000000)

##AUTHOR shpinfo is part of shapelib, maintained by Frank Warmerdam. This guide was created by Eduardo Patoo Kanegae and converted to manpage by Johan Van de Wauw.

##SEE ALSO dbfadd(1), dbfcat(1), dbfcreate(1), dbfdump(1), dbfinfo(1), shpadd(1), shpcat(1), shpcentrd(1), shpcreate(1), shpdump(1), shpdxf(1), shpfix(1), shpproj(1), shprewind(1), shptest(1)