Pass any field to `--exec` using similar syntax to output template

Related: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/28642

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/yt_dlp/postprocessor/execafterdownload.py b/yt_dlp/postprocessor/execafterdownload.py
index 24dc64ef0..95159cbc2 100644
--- a/yt_dlp/postprocessor/execafterdownload.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/postprocessor/execafterdownload.py
@@ -20,12 +20,13 @@ class ExecAfterDownloadPP(PostProcessor):
     def pp_key(cls):
         return 'Exec'
 
-    def run(self, information):
-        cmd = self.exec_cmd
-        if '{}' not in cmd:
-            cmd += ' {}'
-
-        cmd = cmd.replace('{}', compat_shlex_quote(information['filepath']))
+    def run(self, info):
+        tmpl, info_copy = self._downloader.prepare_outtmpl(self.exec_cmd, info)
+        cmd = tmpl % info_copy
+        if cmd == self.exec_cmd:  # No replacements were made
+            if '{}' not in self.exec_cmd:
+                self.exec_cmd += ' {}'
+            cmd = self.exec_cmd.replace('{}', compat_shlex_quote(info['filepath']))
 
         self.to_screen('Executing command: %s' % cmd)
         retCode = subprocess.call(encodeArgument(cmd), shell=True)
@@ -33,4 +34,4 @@ class ExecAfterDownloadPP(PostProcessor):
             raise PostProcessingError(
                 'Command returned error code %d' % retCode)
 
-        return [], information
+        return [], info