topic_map_management(1)

🗺️ topic_map_management(1) — bestie edition 💅

okay so this is a page from the GRASS GIS User's Manual (yes, that GRASS, the Geographic Resources Analysis Support System, the icon, the moment) and it's literally just the glow-up list of every command that lives under the topic map management. Think of it as the group chat roster for "things that move, copy, list, rename, or delete your maps." 🎀

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✨ Topic: map management ✨

okay bestie, here's the whole squad, one by one, no skips, no cuts, all 24 of them 💖

• g.access — Controls access to the current mapset for other users on the system. 🔒 it's giving gatekeeper, but for real, that's literally the job.
• g.copy — Creates copies of maps and other elements. dupe era. 🌸
• g.dirseps — Internal GRASS utility for converting directory separator characters. lowkey plumbing but she's iconic for it.
• g.filename — Prints GRASS data base file names.
• g.findetc — Searches for GRASS support files. 🔍
• g.findfile — Searches for GRASS data base files and sets variables for the shell. she finds the file and tells the shell about it. multitasking queen 👑
• g.list — Lists available GRASS data base files of the user-specified data type optionally using the search pattern. yes she lists, yes she supports patterns, yes she's better than you at it.
• g.remove — Removes data base element files from the user's current mapset using the search pattern. 💀 be careful bestie, she does not have an undo button.
• g.rename — Renames data base element files in the user's current mapset.
• i.group — Creates, edits, and lists groups of imagery data. imagery girlies rise 🦋
• i.target — Targets an imagery group to a GRASS location and mapset.
• r.compress — Compresses and decompresses raster maps. two moods, one command. ✨
• r.null — Manages NULL-values of given raster map. she handles the void, respectfully.
• r3.null — Explicitly create the 3D NULL-value bitmap file. the 3D one!! no cap!! 🌈
• t.create — Creates a space time dataset. yes space AND time, she's multidimensional like that.
• t.list — Lists space time datasets and maps registered in the temporal database.
• t.rast.list — Lists registered maps of a space time raster dataset.
• t.rast3d.list — Lists registered maps of a space time raster3d dataset.
• t.register — Assigns timestamps and registers raster, vector and raster3d maps in a space time dataset. she's the registrar. she's organized. she has a planner. 📝
• t.remove — Removes space time datasets from temporal database.
• t.rename — Renames a space time dataset. (no period in the original one-liner, and I respect her for it 💅)
• t.unregister — Unregisters raster, vector and raster3d maps from the temporal database or a specific space time dataset. she's not deleting, she's just… removing the registration. very different vibe.
• t.vect.list — Lists registered maps of a space time vector dataset.

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🔎 See also

See also the corresponding keyword map management for additional references. fr fr, there's more where that came from.

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🧭 Indexes, go explore

Main index | Topics index | Keywords index | Graphical index | Full index

every rabbit hole you could possibly want. go click, you deserve it 🫶

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© 2003-2025 GRASS Development Team, GRASS GIS 8.4.2 Reference Manual — shoutout to the dev team, they ate and left no crumbs 👑

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and that's the whole page bestie, mwah 💖 stay hydrated, back up your mapsets, and remember: g.remove is forever.

GRASS 8.4.2 — topic_map_management(1) — periodt. ✨