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ogrinfo — List information about an OGR-supported data source. More information: <https://gdal.org/en/stable/p

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Problem

How to use the ogrinfo command: List information about an OGR-supported data source. More information: <https://gdal.org/en/stable/programs/ogrinfo.html>.

Solution

ogrinfo — List information about an OGR-supported data source. More information: <https://gdal.org/en/stable/programs/ogrinfo.html>.

List supported formats:

ogrinfo --formats

List layers of a data source:

ogrinfo {{path/to/input.gpkg}}

Get detailed information about a specific layer of a data source:

ogrinfo {{path/to/input.gpkg}} {{layer_name}}

Show summary information about a specific layer of a data source:

ogrinfo -so {{path/to/input.gpkg}} {{layer_name}}

Show summary of all layers of the data source:

ogrinfo -so -al {{path/to/input.gpkg}}

Show detailed information of features matching a condition:

ogrinfo -where '{{attribute_name > 42}}' {{path/to/input.gpkg}} {{layer_name}}

Update a layer in the data source with SQL:

ogrinfo {{path/to/input.geojson}} -dialect SQLite -sql "{{UPDATE input SET attribute_name = 'foo'}}"

Code Snippets

List supported formats

ogrinfo --formats

List layers of a data source

ogrinfo {{path/to/input.gpkg}}

Get detailed information about a specific layer of a data source

ogrinfo {{path/to/input.gpkg}} {{layer_name}}

Show summary information about a specific layer of a data source

ogrinfo -so {{path/to/input.gpkg}} {{layer_name}}

Show summary of all layers of the data source

ogrinfo -so -al {{path/to/input.gpkg}}

Context

tldr-pages: common/ogrinfo

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