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clean youtube subtitle files and clean-up them for reading
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clean-sub.sh
echo $1
echo "Removing --> time stuff"
sed -i '/-->/d' $1
echo "Removing empty lines"
grep "\S" $1 > $1.txt
echo "wrap long lines to 96 characters"
fold -sw 96 $1.txt > $1.txt.fix
echo "renaming file extension"
rename 's/\.en.vtt.txt.fix$/.txt/' *.fix
echo "Deleting old subtitle file"
rm $1
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