Adds a 1-star rating (XMP:Rating=1) to all specified JPG/JPEG/DNG/RAW files (case-insensitive), only if not already rated.

rate.sh

#!/bin/bash

# =====================================================
# Script: rate.sh
# Purpose: Adds a 1-star rating (XMP:Rating=1) to all
# specified JPG/JPEG/DNG/RAW files (case-insensitive),
# only if not already rated.
#
# Usage:
#   ./rate.sh IMG_1234.JPG IMG_1235.jpg
#
# Requires:
#   - exiftool
# =====================================================

shopt -s nocaseglob nullglob
RAW_EXTENSIONS=("CR3" "CR2" "ARW" "NEF" "RAF" "ORF" "RW2" "DNG")

if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
    echo "Usage: $0 <file1> <file2> ..."
    exit 1
fi

echo "🔧 Rating images..."

for input in "$@"; do
    input=$(echo "$input" | xargs) # trim spaces
    base="${input%.*}"
    found_any=false

    # Rate JPG/JPEG/DNG if exists and not already rated
    for ext in jpg jpeg dng; do
        for file in ./"$base".${ext}; do
            if [[ -f "$file" ]]; then
                exiftool -m -overwrite_original -quiet -if 'not $Rating or $Rating eq "0"' -Rating=1 "$file"
                echo "✔️  Rated $(basename "$file")"
                found_any=true
            fi
        done
    done

    # Rate RAW variants
    for ext in "${RAW_EXTENSIONS[@]}"; do
        for file in ./"$base".${ext}; do
            if [[ -f "$file" ]]; then
                exiftool -m -overwrite_original -quiet -if 'not $Rating or $Rating eq "0"' -Rating=1 "$file"
                echo "✔️  Rated $(basename "$file")"
                found_any=true
            fi
        done
    done

    if [ "$found_any" = false ]; then
        echo "⚠️  No files found for base name: $base"
    fi
done

echo "✅ Rating complete."