NAME
shpsort - rewrite a shapefile sorted by a field or by the geometry
##SYNOPSIS shpsort infile outfile field[;...] [<(ASCENDING|DESCENDING)[;...]>]
##DESCRIPTION Rewrite a shapefile sorted by a field or by the geometry. For polygons, sort by area, for lines sort by length and do nothing for all others.
##OPTIONS
- infile
-
input shapefile
- outfile
-
output shapefile
- field[;...]
-
one or more fields to use for ordering
- [<(ASCENDING|DESCENDING)[;...]>]
-
sort order
##AUTHOR shpsort is part of shapelib, maintained by Frank Warmerdam.
##SEE ALSO dbfadd(1), dbfcat(1), dbfcreate(1), dbfdump(1), dbfinfo(1), shpcat(1), shpcentrd(1), shpcreate(1), shpdump(1), shpdxf(1), shpfix(1), shpinfo(1), shpproj(1), shprewind(1), shptest(1)