A bash function to convert srt subtitle files to text files

srt2txt.sh

# sed -r -e 's/\r$//;/^[0-9]+$/{N;/\n[0-9]/d;}' -> remove lines with timestamps
# sed -e '/^$/d' -> remove empty lines
# perl -p -e 's|(.*[^\.]$)\n|\1 |g' -> remove new line between paragragh lines.
# ${1%.*} -> input filename without extension

function srt2txt() {
    cat $1 | sed -r -e 's/\r$//;/^[0-9]+$/{N;/\n[0-9]/d;}' | sed -e '/^$/d' | perl -p -e 's|(.*[^\.]$)\n|\1 |g' > "${1%.*}".txt
}