tagthis

#!/bin/bash

# A droptarget file.
# use to add arbitrary exif tags to a given file.
#
# Create a symlink or alias to this script on your desktop or similar
# Rename the alias to the term you want to use
# Drop a media file onto this drop target
# It will add the name of the alias to the file.

term=$0

function processFile {
  local source_file=$1
  local exif_option="-quiet -overwrite_original"
  exiftool ${exif_option} "${source_file}" -XMP:Subject-="$term" -XMP:Subject+="$term"
}

function processFiles {
    for file in "$@"; do
        if [[ -d $file ]]; then
            # If the argument is a directory, process all files in the directory
            for f in "$file"/*; do
                processFile "$f"
            done
        else
            # If the argument is a file, process the file
            processFile "$file"
        fi
    done
}
parallalProcessFiles "$@"