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Roben

06-28-2013 01:57 PM

How can I extract plain text from a srt file (subtitle) by eliminating the time codes?

How can I remove time codes of a ".srt" file to provide it for print? I want Order of terms in the extracted file to be the same as the original file.

druuna

06-28-2013 02:05 PM

Try this:

Code:

$ dos2unix subtitles.srt

$ sed -r '/^[0-9]+$/{N;d}' subtitles.srt > outfile

athanatic

08-16-2021 02:53 PM

Worked perfectly! Thanks!

I will be using that trick a fair amount. I needed to get the transcript of a rant on Lewis Black's podcast. I sent him the proofed text after and it was MUCH easier with that crap gone.

MadeInGermany

08-18-2021 06:14 PM

Also examine the following line:

Code:

sed -r 's/\r$//;/^[0-9]+$/{N;/\n[0-9]/d;}' subtitles.srt

EDIT: by deleting the WinDOS \r it does a dos2unix

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