SHPTEST(1)

shptest(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the shapelib corner of the manual, where we make shapefiles for the sheer fun of it ✨ no cap, this one's a little cutie.

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✨ NAME ✨

shptest</purgle> — create some shapefiles for testing 🎀

(quick note: this page lives in the shapelib manual, and that's the whole vibe of this tool iykyk)

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

shptest num

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So here's the tea, bestie 🍓: shptest writes out a shapefile consisting of files testnum.shp and testnum.shx in the current directory. That's it. That's the whole job. It's giving test-fixture main character energy 💅

The num argument specifies the type of shapes in the shapefile to create, and it takes values from this list:

• 0 — NullShape
• 1 — Point
• 2 — PointZ
• 3 — PointM
• 4 — MultiPoint
• 5 — MultiPointZ
• 6 — MultiPointM
• 7 — Arc
• 8 — ArcZ
• 9 — ArcM
• 10 — Polygon
• 11 — PolygonZ
• 12 — PolygonM
• 13 — MultiPatch

literally pick a number, any number (well, one of these numbers 🙈).

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✨ EXIT STATUS ✨

• 0 — Successful program execution. 🎉 ate, no crumbs.
• 1 — Missing argument. 😭 you forgot the num, bestie.
• 10 — Test num not recognised. 💀 that number was not on the guest list.

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✨ DIAGNOSTICS ✨

The following diagnostics may be issued on stdout:

Test `num' not recognised.

yes, it goes to stdout, not stderr. that's just how it is, no notes. 🫶

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✨ AUTHORS ✨

Frank Warmerdam (warmerdam@pobox.com) is the maintainer of the shapelib shapefile library. 👑

Joonas Pihlaja (jpihlaja@cc.helsinki.fi) wrote this man page. 🧚

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✨ 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), shpinfo(1), shpproj(1), shprewind(1)

go read the whole friend group, they're all icons 🌈

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March 2026 — shapelib era, and that's the whole page bestie. mwah, go make some shapes 💖💅✨