How to modify this sed awk command so that the output goes to a file of choice?

Question

I am using the last command from this SO answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/54818581/80353

cap()(cd /tmp;rm -f *.vtt;youtube-dl --skip-download --write-auto-sub          


        

Answer 1

Thank You @KimStacks @RavinderSingh13 @Oguz-Ismail for posting these solutions above and in the previous post

I managed to get results in the .vtt file with youtube-dl --skip-download --write-auto-sub $youtube_url

However, the format of the output is not ideal for my purpose. I have to delete line by line in order to remove the time as well as the /n new line. So I would like to customize the code syntax to fit my requirements.

NOTE: Not sure whether it's a new query or not, so I will post it here for now:

1. I have tried all the steps suggested in previous post and here as well but I still can not understand:

• How to insert the "$youtube_url" inside the code below?

  cap()(cd /tmp;rm -f *.vtt;youtube-dl --skip-download --write-auto-sub "$1";\
  sed '1,/^$/d' *.vtt|sed 's/<[^>]*>//g'|awk -F. 'NR%8==1{printf"%s ",$1}NR%8==3'\
  |tee -a "$2")
  

2. I tried editing the numbers from 0 to 3 to -1 in 'NR%8==1{printf"%s ",$1}NR%8==3', on both ends but not successfully getting the right format inside the .vtt file. Thus, Is it possible to have:

• transcripted text printed continously as sentences, rather than each subtitle printed as new lines?

• remove printout of start time?