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I am attempting to use OGR2ORG on Mac OS X to loop through 30 shapefiles, change their projection and save the files into a new directory. I am new to using Macs and the OGR2OGR command line environment.

The original files are in /data/ChicagoBaseLayers/clipped. I would like the reprojected layers to go to /data/ChicagoBaseLayers/Projected.

After navigating to the 'clipped' directory on the command line, I tried

for %f in (*.shp) do ogr2ogr -t_srs EPSG:3857 -s_srs EPSG:4326 /Users/stevenchong/data/ChicagoBaseLayers/Projected/%f Users/stevenchong/data/ChicagoBaseLayers/clipped/%f

but I get the error message: syntax error near unexpected token `('

What am I doing wrong?

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That looks a lot like a windows style 'for loop' and if you enter it in one single line, without ';' in place of where the newlines need to be, you could get some errors.

Try doing it in Linux style!

cd /Users/stevenchong/data/ChicagoBaseLayers/clipped; for f in *.shp; do ogr2ogr -t_srs "EPSG:3857" -s_srs "EPSG:4326" ../Projected/${f} ${f}; done

That's probably a better way to enter it into the terminal on one line.

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  • It worked! Thanks for the helpful explanation too! Jul 15, 2014 at 9:23

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