SHPINFO(1)

✨ SHPINFO 💅

okay so bestie, welcome to shpinfo, a lil tool from the shplib family (that's section 1 of the manual, iykyk) 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

shpinfo — it literally just displays basic information for a given shapefile. that's the whole job. and it ate. 💖

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

shpinfo shapefile

🍓 DESCRIPTION 🍓

so here's the vibe: you hand it a shapefile and it spills the tea on it. we're talking shapefile type, number of objects, and its extents. lowkey the easiest way to get a read on a shapefile before you actually do anything with it. no cap. ✨

👑 OPTIONS 👑

• shapefile — the name of an existing shapefile. that's it, that's the whole list. just. the name. of a shapefile. that exists. (it does need to exist bestie, don't be out here naming ghosts 💀)

🌈 EXAMPLE 🌈

the classic move:

shpinfo testpolygon

and it comes back with:

Info for testpolygon
Polygon(5), 1 Records in file
File Bounds: (         100000,        6000000)
        (         250000,        7000000)

look at her. iconic. showing you the type and the record count and the bounds like the main character she is. 🔥

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💜 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. give them their flowers fr fr 🫶🌸

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

the whole friend group, periodt:

• 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)

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and that's the whole page babes 💖 go check on your shapefiles, they miss you 🎀

March 2026 energy, SHPINFO(1), signing off 🦋✨