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)

                                           October 2022                                SHPSORT(1)