Argument are processed in the order they appear on the command line and are translated internally into a pipeline that data flows through when executed. Normally one would:
| read from one input |
| optionally apply filters |
| write into one output |
but GPSBabel is flexible enough to allow more complicated operations such as reading from several files (potentially of different types), applying a filter, reading more data, then writing the merged data to multiple destinations.
The input file type remains unchanged until a new
-i argument is seen.
Files are read in the order they appear. So you could merge
three input files into one output file with:
Example 2.3. Merging multiple files into one
gpsbabel -i geo -f 1.loc -f 2.loc -f 3.loc -o geo -F big.loc
You can merge files of different types:
Example 2.4. Merging multiple files of differing types.
gpsbabel -i geo -f 1.loc -i gpx -f 2.gpx -i pcx 3.pcx -o gpsutil -F big.gps
Example 2.5. Writing the same data in multiple output formats.
You can write the same data in different output formats:
gpsbabel -i geo -f 1.loc -o gpx -F 1.gpx -o pcx -F 1.wpt
If you want to change the character set of input or/and
output side you can do this with the option -c
<character set>. You can get a complete list
of supported character sets with "gpsbabel -l". To change
the character set on both sides you should do this:
gpsbabel -i xcsv,style=foo.style -c latin1 -f foo -o xcsv,style=bar.style -c ms-ansi -F bar
Note, that some formats have a fixed character set and ignore this option.