I want to take a folder with several (15 in this first case) 'subtitle.srt' files (which, as I'm sure you're aware, are just text files with the extension ".srt" instead of ".txt") and modify each file in turn so that a new subtitle is added at the start of each file. I want the new subtitle to be:-
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"Filename"
So, for example, if the first subtitle file in the folder is called "01. What Lies Beneath.srt" and it looks like this:-
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<font color="#FFFF00">Previously on Superman & Lois...</font>
2
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<font color="#00FFFF">I'm stepping down from active duty.</font>
<font color="#00FF00">You're going to be hard to replace.</font>
3
Etc., etc...
then after processing, I want it to look like this:-
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01. What Lies Beneath
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<font color="#FFFF00">Previously on Superman & Lois...</font>
2
00:00:03,560 --> 00:00:06,880
<font color="#00FFFF">I'm stepping down from active duty.</font>
<font color="#00FF00">You're going to be hard to replace.</font>
3
Etc., etc...
I'm rubbish at batch coding so I tried searching out possible ways to do it but nothing I tried worked!
Below are some attempts I made using different "routines" I found; each successive attempt separated (from last to first) by the PAUSE, EXIT commands:-
for %%a in (*.txt) do type append_ns0 >> %%a.srt
pause
exit
for %%a in (*.txt) do type append_ns0 >> %%a
for %%a in (*.txt) do type "%%~na" >> %%a
for %%a in (*.txt) do type append_spc >> %%a.srt
pause
exit
for %%I in (*.txt) do copy "C:\Users\wbcam\Desktop\G classroom\AddTitle.txt" "%%~nI" " " "%%I" "%%~nI.srt"
pause
exit
for %X in (C:\Users\wbcam\Desktop\G classroom\Add Titles\*.txt) do type C:\Users\wbcam\Desktop\G classroom\AddTitles.txt >> %X
pause
exit
To use the COPY command I had to first rename the files from .srt to .txt (I'd rather NOT have to do that; I'm hoping someone can show me how to work on the ,srt files without any intermediate stages) and COPY also seemed to add a hex1A character to the end of the new file but, of course, it couldn't handle the insertion of the Filename (a text string) into the new file as it would only concatenate files not strings (if I, eventually, understood it's operation correctly, Doh!). And attempts to use the ECHO or TYPE commands just seemed to overwrite everything in the original file leaving only:-
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and bugger all else!
Can anyone help out, please?
CodePudding user response：
@ECHO OFF
SETLOCAL
rem The following setting for the source directoryis a name
rem that I use for testing and deliberately includes spaces to make sure
rem that the process works using such names. These will need to be changed to suit your situation.
SET "sourcedir=u:\your files"
FOR /f "delims=" %%b IN (
'dir /b /a-d "%sourcedir%\*.srt" '
) DO (
(
ECHO 0
ECHO 00:00:00,001 --^> 00:00:02,100
ECHO "%%~nb"
ECHO.
TYPE "%sourcedir%\%%b"
)>"%sourcedir%\%%~nb.txt"
MOVE "%sourcedir%\%%~nb.txt" "%sourcedir%\%%b" >NUL
)
GOTO :EOF
Always verify against a test directory before applying to real data.
Perform a directory scan. assigning each filename that matches the mask to %%b.
Write the two required lines, a line containing the name part of the filename in quotes and an empty line to the output, then type the contents of the selected file. Note that the > character in the text needs to be escaped by a caret. The output of the echoes is gathered and redirected to a .txt file and the .txt file is then written over the original file. The 1 file(s) copied message is suppressed by the >nul.
If you prefer, you could replace the two echo lines that insert the fixed text with type somefilename where somefilename contains the fixed text required.
You could replace the move line for testing with
FC "%sourcedir%\%%~nb.txt" "%sourcedir%\%%b"
which will show the differences.
copy adds the control-z following an archaic convention that ^Z marked end-of-file for text files.