Loop through all the blog posts and mark the first 4 as featured. Using variables, loops wp-cli, conditionals.

set-4-featured_post.sh

// loop through all the blog posts and mark the first 4 as featured.
i=0; \
c=4; \
for id in $(wp post list --format=ids); \
do let i++; \
  if [ "$i" -lt 4 ]; \
    then wp post meta update $id featured_post '1'; \
    else wp post meta update $id featured_post '0'; \
  fi; \
done; \