Converting CSV file of WKT data to shapefile using ogr2ogr?

I had to solve the same problem today, so here is my answer, which gives a complete solution.

I have a lineWKT.csv file stored in F:\Data\ folder, with the data like this:

id,gm
0,"LINESTRING (30 10 0, 10 30 0, 40 40 5)"

I have a test.vrt file like this:

<OGRVRTDataSource>
    <OGRVRTLayer name="lineWKT">
       <SrcDataSource>F:\Data\lineWKT.csv</SrcDataSource>
      <GeometryType>wkbLineString25D</GeometryType>
 <LayerSRS>PROJCS["WGS_1984_Lambert_Conformal_Conic",GEOGCS["GCS_WGS_1984",DATUM["D_WGS_1984",SPHEROID["WGS_1984",6378137.0,298.257223563]],PRIMEM["Greenwich",0.0],UNIT["Degree",0.0174532925199433]],PROJECTION["Lambert_Conformal_Conic"],PARAMETER["False_Easting",1000000.0],PARAMETER["False_Northing",1000000.0],PARAMETER["Central_Meridian",85.875],PARAMETER["Standard_Parallel_1",24.625],PARAMETER["Standard_Parallel_2",27.125],PARAMETER["Latitude_Of_Origin",25.8772525],UNIT["Meter",1.0]]</LayerSRS>
 <GeometryField encoding="WKT" field='gm' > </GeometryField >
     </OGRVRTLayer>
</OGRVRTDataSource>

With this configuration, I can create a shapefile with the following command:

ogr2ogr line.shp test.vrt

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.