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)

                                                   August 2024                                        SHPSORT(1)