Is there no EPSG code to use for Behrmann equal-area projection in ogr2ogr?

Question

I'm trying to use ogr2ogr to reproject some shapefiles. The projection I wish to use is Behrmann equal-area. I cannot find an EPSG code to use for the '-t_srs' part of the syntax. Is there any way around this? The best I can find is this - http://spatialreference.org/ref/esri/54017/

Any help much appreciated!

Update:

for file in $INPUT/*.shp ; do
ogr2ogr -t_srs PROJCS[\"World_Behrmann\",GEOGCS[\"GCS_WGS_1984\",DATUM[\"WGS_1984  \",SPHEROID[\"WGS_1984\",6378137,298.257223563]],PRIMEM[\"Greenwich\",0],UNIT[\"Degree\",0.017453292519943295]],PROJECTION[\"Behrmann\"],PARAMETER[\"False_Easting\",0],PARAMETER[\"False_Northing\",0],PARAMETER[\"Central_Meridian\",0],UNIT[\"Meter\",1],AUTHORITY[\"EPSG\",\"54017\"]] $OUTPUT/$file $file
done

This is now what I have. Apart from inverted commas, i'm not sure what else needs to be escaped in this statement. Any ideas?

Answer 1

JPD: Yes! You don't have to enter an EPSG Code in -t_srs - you can in fact enter the WKT instead. Try taking the OGC WKT String from spatialreference.org and entering that. I do recall hearing issues about properly escaping characters, so you may have some trouble with that.