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Converting IPTC ratings in EXIF metadata to and from Finder tags in macOS.
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1#! /usr/bin/env fish
2
3# Takes a Finder tag and turns it into a rating stored in IPTC EXIF metadata.
4#
5# The tags are named "★", "★★", "★★★", "★★★★", and "★★★★★". Behavior if multiple
6# tags are added is undefined. If none of the tags are present, the file will
7# be unchanged.
8#
9# Dependencies: exiftool and tag. Developed with exiftool v13.55 and tag
10# v0.10.0.
11
12for file in $argv
13 set tag_name (tag --list $file | awk '$NF ~ /^★+$/ { print $NF }')
14 if test -n "$tag_name"
15 set rating (string length $tag_name)
16 set current_rating (exiftool -RATING -veryShoft -printFormat '$Rating' -API MissingTagValue=0 $file)
17 if test $rating -ne $current_rating
18 echo "Rating $file (tagged: $tag_name) as $rating"
19 exiftool -overwrite_original_in_place -Rating=$rating $file
20 else
21 echo "Not changing rating of $file (tagged: $tag_name, rating: $rating)"
22 end
23 else
24 echo "Not tagging $file because of missing or 0 rating."
25 end
26end