mjhjmtu

My question is similar to the one asked here:

https://www.unix.com/shell-programming-and-scripting/104336-how-set-ifs-specific-command.html

I'm looking to make a FOR loop into a WHILE loop, but as you see when you read the script

function twokey () wc -w)
 echo "$f: There are $keycount keywords."
 for keys in $keycount
 do
 echo "$keys" 
 echo "Adding keyword $taxt."
 exiv2 --keep -M"add Iptc.Application2.Keywords $taxt" -M"add Xmp.dc.subject $taxt" "$f" 
 ((taxt++))
 done
 exiv2 -g Iptc.Application2.Keywords -Pv "$f" 


function dothedeed () 
 echo -e "Adding Keywords to e[5;42m$fe[0m." 
 echo -e "$ft$k" 
 keycount=$(echo "$k" 

function dav () 
 echo -e "What text file will I be using?" 
 read -er item
 f=$item
 while IFS="^" read -r f k
 do
 echo -e "File is e[31m$fe[0m" 
 if [[ ! -f "$f" ]]; then
 echo "I don't see $f in this directory." 
 echo "Moving to next list item." 
 continue
 fi
# dothedeed
 twokey
 done<"$f" 


dav

...it already sets one IFS field separator, a carat, to read the ASCII text file IN. I have tried the script as is, but the "cut" command, on line 21, keeps "landing" it on the first word after the first comma in the string of keywords, which is all it writes to the image file. I'm not sure changing that FOR to a WHILE IFS="," will get me any further along. By my logic it should.

S Wright