CODEWITHSUNDEEP
regexmacosreplacesed
vinni
vinni

Reputation: 653

Regex add Characters after Sentence Mac Terminal

I'm trying to Add Characters to the end of certain lines of many text files. Sample of the Text (These are Subtitles)

WEBVTT

00:00.000 --> 00:03.000
Der perfekte Case sozusagen war,

00:03.000 --> 00:06.000
dass man in der gleichen Stadt wohnt, befreundet ist,

00:06.000 --> 00:08.000
sich 6 Monate nicht gesehen hat 

....

I need to add L:90% to the end of each Timecode. (with a space at the beginning) I've come up with this Regex to mark the end of the correct lines, but I couldn't find out about the correct Syntax to add Stuff in the end.

(-->).*

Ive been using this: 

sed -i '' 's/->/-->/g' */*.vtt

to find and replace through the terminal.

Thanks a lot! Vinni

Upvotes: 0

Views: 85

Answers (1)

miken32
miken32

Reputation: 42760

This should do the trick:

sed -i 'bak' -Ee 's/(--> [0-9:.]+)/\1 L:90%/' */*.vtt

The \1 is a backreference to the stuff you captured inside the (). The -E flag enables extended regular expression support. Otherwise the capturing doesn't work as well.

Upvotes: 2

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