Programs

"gdal" application

Added in version 3.11.

Starting with GDAL 3.11, parts of the GDAL utilities are available from a newsinglegdal program that accepts commands and subcommands.

As an introduction, you can follow the webinar given on June 3, 2025 about theGDAL Command Line Interface Modernization as aPDF slide deckor therecording of the video.

Warning

Thegdal command is provisionally provided as an alternativeinterface to GDAL and OGR command line utilities. The project reserves theright to modify, rename, reorganize, and change the behavior of the utilityuntil it is officially frozen via PSC vote in a future major GDAL release.The utility needs time to mature, benefit from incremental feedback, andexplore enhancements without carrying the burden of full backward compatibility.Your usage of it should have no expectation of compatibility until that time.

General

Commands working with raster or vector inputs

Raster commands

Vector commands

Multidimensional raster commands

Virtual System Interface (VSI) commands

  • gdal vsi: Entry point for GDAL Virtual System Interface (VSI) commands

  • gdal vsi copy: Copy files located on GDAL Virtual System Interface (VSI)

  • gdal vsi delete: Delete files located on GDAL Virtual System Interface (VSI)

  • gdal vsi list: List files of one of the GDAL Virtual System Interface (VSI)

  • gdal vsi move: Move/rename a file/directory located on GDAL Virtual System Interface (VSI)

  • gdal vsi sync: Synchronize source and target file/directory located on GDAL Virtual System Interface (VSI)

  • gdal vsi sozip: SOZIP (Seek-Optimized ZIP) related commands

Driver specific commands

"Traditional" applications

General

Raster programs

Multidimensional Raster programs

  • gdalmdiminfo: Reports structure and content of a multidimensional dataset.

  • gdalmdimtranslate: Converts multidimensional data between different formats, and perform subsetting.

Vector programs

  • Common options

  • ogrinfo: Lists information about an OGR-supported data source.

  • ogr2ogr: Converts simple features data between file formats.

  • ogrtindex: Creates a tileindex.

  • ogrlineref: Create linear reference and provide some calculations using it.

  • ogrmerge: Merge several vector datasets into a single one.

  • ogr_layer_algebra: Performs various Vector layer algebraic operations.

Geographic network programs

Other utilities

  • sozip: Generate a seek-optimized ZIP (SOZip) file