Need help with EXEC parameters

[OmahaVike]

hi all. would very much appreciate any insight someone could lend. i need help understanding how to pass parameters to an exec statement. here's what i have thus far...

awk -F \/ '{print $0 substr($2,1,2)"-"substr($3,1,2)}' dirlist -exec id3 -c '{2}' {1} \;

the problem i'm facing is not having the two commands speak to each other.
i've tested the id3 command, and have that working as intended. i've also tested my awk statement, and it's working as intended.

the output of the awk statement looks something like this:
./01-Directory1/01-File1.mp3 01-01
./01-Directory1/02-File2.mp3 01-02
./02-Directory2/01-File1.mp3 02-01
./02-Directory2/02-File2.mp3 02-02

as you can see, i've lined up the awk to print out in parameter style.

problem #1: anyone know how to stop awk from trying to process the "-exec" portion (error listed as 'fatal: cannot open file `-exec' for reading (No such file or directory))?

problem #2: is my parameter structure of the exec statement correct?

thanks in advance for any help you may extend.

[matonb]

I don't have dirlist or id3 so not entirely sure what they generate, however Try this:

dirlist -exec id3 -c '{2}' {1} \ | awk -F \/ '{print $0 substr($2,1,2)"-"substr($3,1,2)}'

Scrub that, what are you trying to achieve?