Ubuntu – bash: file: command not found

Walk over the files, create an associative array over the uuids contained in their names (I used parameter expansion to extract the uuid). The, read the list, check the associative array for each uuid and report whether the file was recorded or not.

#!/bin/bash
uuid_list=...

declare -A file_for
for file in *_*_* ; do
    uuid=${file%%_*}
    file_for[$uuid]=1
done

while read -r uuid name ; do
    [[ $uuid = \#* ]] && continue
    if [[ ${file_for[$uuid]} ]] ; then
        echo "File for $name has arrived."
    else
        echo "File for $name missing!"
    fi
done < "$uuid_list"

Instead of using simple strings, build your command using arrays. Arrays provide a convenient interface: If a is an array, then "${a[@]}" (note the quotes) expands into each element of a, without additional field splitting or globbing (so spaces, and things like wildcards, should remain intact).

Example:

$ a=(printf "|%s|\n" "foo   bar" "*")
$ echo ${a[@]}
printf |%s|\n foo bar bin boot dev etc home lib lib64 lost+found mnt opt proc root run sbin srv sys tmp usr var

Note how the * was expanded, and how the extra spaces between foo and bar were lost. But with the "${a[@]}", these are preserved:

$ echo "${a[@]}"
printf |%s|\n foo   bar *

This is ideal for building commands. Now, you can do:

$ "${a[@]}"
|foo   bar|
|*|

See? The arguments were retained perfectly.

So, do:

COMMAND=(/usr/bin/exiftool "$PATH_NAME")
"${COMMAND[@]}"