convert - Converting CSV file of WKT data to shapefile using ogr2ogr?

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I have a CSV file, with one column, where all the rows correspond to WKT POLYGON()'s:

WKT
POLYGON(...)
POLYGON(...)
...

I'm familiar with how to convert from shapefile to wkt, but I need to go the other way around. How to accomplish this task?

I tried playing around with ogr2ogr's settings/flags but didn't really get anything useful.

I also know I can use QGIS to do this, but it freezes/crashes since the dataset is fairly large.

Answer

http://www.gdal.org/drv_vrt.html plus http://www.gdal.org/drv_csv.html should have everything you need to describe the layout of your data and import it. In short, you need to create a OGR VRT file that describes things using details from the CSV driver page.