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SHPINFO
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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)