shpsort - Man Page

shpsort infile outfile field[;...] [<(ASCENDING|DESCENDING)[;...]>]

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.

infile

input shapefile

outfile

output shapefile

field[;...]

one or more fields to use for ordering

[<(ASCENDING|DESCENDING)[;...]>]

sort order

shpsort is part of shapelib, maintained by Frank Warmerdam.

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)