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If all the dependencies were found, you're ready to run a PDAL import into PostgreSQL Pointcloud!
#### Running `pcpipeline` ####
#### Running `pdal pipeline` ####
PDAL includes a `command linen program <http://www.pointcloud.org/apps.html>`_ that allows both simple format translations and more complex "pipelines" of transformation. The `pdal translate` does simple format transformations. In order to load data into Pointcloud we use a "PDAL pipeline", by calling `pdal pipeline`. A pipeline combines a format reader, and format writer, with filters that can alter or group the points together.
PDAL pipelines are XML files, which nest together readers, filters, and writers into a processing chain that will be applied to the LIDAR data.
To execute a pipeline file, run it through the `pcpipeline` command:
To execute a pipeline file, run it through the `pdal pipeline` command:
pdal pipeline --input pipelinefile.xml