[GRASS5] How to merge attribute files after v.patch?

[Michael Barton]

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I made a little script to solve this problem. It's still a bit rough but
seems to work pretty well. When I get a bit of time, I'll clean it up and
put it on the GRASS WIKI.

I've attached it here.

Michael
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> From: Allan Metts <ametts2@mindspring.com>
> Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 07:51:42 -0500
> To: <grass5@grass.itc.it>
> Subject: [GRASS5] How to merge attribute files after v.patch?
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I have geometry stored in shape files (linked in with v.external), and
> attribute files stored in dbf files.
> 
> I can combine two shape files into one with v.patch -- but v.patch doesn't do
> anything with the dbf attributes.  So I'm looking for a good way to combine
> the attribute files after performing v.patch.
> 
> I tried INSERT INTO usxxxxst (SELECT * from akxxxxst), but it doesn't look
> like support for this type of operation exists in GRASS SQL yet.
> 
> Can anyone suggest an easy utility (GRASS or otherwise) that can append the
> contents of one dbf file into another?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Allan
> 


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