#!/bin/bash 

function dothedeed () {
echo -e "Here's the Keyword string for file $f:\n$s\n"
echo -e "Adding SupplementalCategories to \e[5;42m$f\e[0m."
supcount=$(echo "$s" | tr ',' ' ' | wc -w)
echo "$thef: There are $supcount SupplementalCategories."
echo "Here's the Supplemental Category string."
echo -e "$s"
	exiftool -sep "," -fast5 -overwrite_original_in_place -q -P -SupplementalCategories+="$s" -SupplementalCategories+="$s" "$f"
	echo -e "SupplementalCategories added to file \e[4m$f.\e[0m"
}

function dav () {
echo -e "What text file will I be using?"
read -e item
while IFS="^" read f s
do
echo -e "File is \e[31m$f\e[0m"
if [[ ! -f "$f" ]]; then
	echo "I don't see $f in this directory."
	echo "Moving to next list item."
	continue
fi
((x++))
dothedeed
done<"$thef"
}
echo "Uses Exiftool."
echo

dav

#putk
#echo "Here's the Keyword string."
#echo -e "$s"

IFS=$SAVEIFS

#!/bin/bash 

function dothedeed () {
echo -e "Here's the Keyword string for file $f:\n$k\n"
echo -e "Adding Keywords to \e[5;42m$f\e[0m."
keycount=$(echo "$k" | tr ',' ' ' | wc -w)
echo "$thef: There are $keycount keywords."
echo "Here's the Keyword string."
echo -e "$k"
	exiftool -sep "," -fast5 -overwrite_original_in_place -q -P -Keywords+="$k" -Subject+="$k" "$f"
	echo -e "Keywords added to file \e[4m$f.\e[0m"
}

function dav () {
echo -e "What text file will I be using?"
read -e item
#Allowing for, and correcting, the trailing space in interactive mode
if [[ "$item" =~ " " ]]; then
	thef=${item% *}
else
	thef=$item
fi
while IFS="^" read f k
do
echo -e "File is \e[31m$f\e[0m"
if [[ ! -f "$f" ]]; then
	echo "I don't see $f in this directory."
	echo "Moving to next list item."
	continue
fi
((x++))
dothedeed
done<"$thef"
}
echo "Uses Exiftool."
echo

dav

#putk
#echo "Here's the Keyword string."
#echo -e "$k"

IFS=$SAVEIFS

line 14: : No such file or directory

n /home/steve/bin/addsupcats line 16:
read -e item
^-- SC2162: read without -r will mangle backslashes.

n /home/steve/bin/addsupcats line 16:
read -e item
^-- SC2162: read without -r will mangle backslashes.