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name: cli description: "Guides Fiona's fio command-line inspection, conversion, GeoJSON streaming, metadata, filtering, and safe pipeline workflows." disable-model-invocation: true metadata: disco-role: operating license: BSD 3-Clause

Fiona fio CLI

Use this route for shell commands that inspect, stream, convert, or summarize vector datasets. Read CLI reference for command flags, pipeline recipes for composable examples, and troubleshooting before changing input framing or driver options.

Common routes are fio info, fio ls, fio cat, fio dump, fio load, fio bounds, fio collect, and fio distrib. fio calc and the expression commands require the optional calc dependencies. fio rm is destructive and is not a routine verification operation; require deliberate user approval and never add it to an unattended pipeline.

Use vector-io for the equivalent Python API, crs-transform for CRS semantics, and environment-cloud for GDAL driver, AWS, or virtual-file setup.