The translate Command
The translate command reads information from a file in a given
format and writes it to another file in another given format:
translate IN-FORMAT [IN-PARAMS] [IN-TYPES] IN-PATH \
OUT-FORMAT [OUT-PARAMS] [OUT-TYPES] OUT-PATH
where:
IN-FORMAT [IN-PARAMS]
and
OUT-FORMAT [OUT-PARAMS]
are the input file
format and the output file format and their parameters (if any);
use show formats for a list of the
currently accepted formats;
IN-TYPES
are the data types to read; the possible types
depend on the input format and some formats impose that there is a
single data type per file; they may be absent if the format
requires a unique data type or if the files can have items of
different types; all
can be used as an abbreviation of
WP RT TR LN
;
IN-PATH
is the path to the file to read from, or, in the
case of the Shapefile
format, the path to the Shapefiles
basename (file extensions will be discarded). If the IN-PATH
is stdin
input will be from the standard input unless the
format is the Shapefile
format (in which case the
command fails);
OUT-TYPES
may be absent in which case they are taken to
be IN-TYPES
; if RT
occurs in IN-TYPES
then
WP
can appear in OUT-TYPES
but no other type
"conversions" are allowed; some file formats impose that there is a
single data type per file; all
can be used as an abbreviation
of WP RT TR LN
;
OUT-PATH
is the path to the output file, or, in the
case of the Shapefile
format, the path to the Shapefiles
basename (file extensions will be discarded). If the OUT-PATH
is stdout
output will be to the standard output unless the
format is the Shapefile
format (in which case the
command fails). Existing files will be silently overwritten.
GPSMan User Manual
©1998-2006 Miguel
Filgueiras,
mig_at_ncc.up.pt
, DCC-FC & LIACC,
Universidade do Porto