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Modifying metadata in bulk with the dedicated CLI tool means applying values to one or more fields at a time, or also to multiple items at a time (in bulk) by using spreadsheets as an input. The problem is that for bulk metadata changing, values cannot be appended, but they can only be edited/substituted/removed. In order to batch append collections, I wrote a tiny [[Scripts|script]]:
#!/bin/bash read -p "name of the collection to add: " collection exec < input.txt # input file in pwd #read header # optionally skip the first line (in case it is a CSV file) while read line do ia metadata "$line" --append-list="collection:$collection" done