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I have two shapefiles, a polygon shapefile (lake) and a line shapefile (boudary) I want to create a new shapefile containing the polygon splitted by the polyline using ogr2ogr.

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    It is not clear what do you mean by 'Split'? Can you elaborate a bit more?
    – nash
    Mar 5, 2017 at 18:20
  • i edited the post think you
    – AhmeX2
    Mar 6, 2017 at 8:41

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If we have GDAL OGR with Spatialite support and liblwgeom (e.g. OSGeo4W):

ogr2ogr splitted_lake.shp lake.shp -dialect sqlite -sql "SELECT ST_Split(g1.geometry,g2.geometry) AS geometry FROM lake AS g1, 'boundary.shp'.'boundary' AS g2" -explodecollections
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