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ogrcat: make line-delimited geojson features to stdout from any ogr vector datasource
#!/bin/bash
#
# ogrcat
# produces line-delimited geojson features
# Like `fio cat` but uses ogr2ogr under the hood
ECHO_FEATURES=""
ogr2ogr -f GeoJSON /vsistdout/ "$@" | while read line
do
if [ "$line" == "\"features\": [" ]; then
ECHO_FEATURES="true"
else
if [ "$ECHO_FEATURES" == "true" ]; then
# check for end of array
if [[ $line == ]* ]]; then
exit 0
fi
# strip trailing comma
echo $line | sed "s/,$//"
fi
fi
done
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