Passing names to exec post-processing

[ScribbleGhost]

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Execute a command on the file after downloading and post-processing, similar to find's -exec syntax. Example: --exec 'adb push {}/sdcard/Music/ && rm {}'                                     

What else can be passed to the command except {}? For example. if I want to post-process a subtitle, is it possible to pass the subtitle name instead of the video file name?

[ScribbleGhost]

Sorry, I am Windows so I don't know of any way to write this with PowerShell or CMD.

[pukkandan]

Only the filename {} can be passed

"$(a='{}'; printf '%s' "${a%.*}.srt")"

This cannot be done in a single line in windows (without additional tools), but you can write a batch script to do this. Eg: put echo.%~dpn1.srt in a batch file and point --exec to that file

[dirkf]

PowerShell should allow a functional equivalent of the one-liner above.

Eg use $Args[0] -replace '\.[^.]+$', '.srt' in a script block on the PS command line where the subtitle filename is needed, passing '{}' as the 0th argument to the script.

For more advanced needs, one could try --write-info-json and get any metadata extracted by yt-dl from outfile.info.json in the --exec command, perhaps using the ConvertFrom-Json PS cmdlet.