[c-nsp] return of the carriage

[Phil Mayers]

Allan, Andy J R wrote:
> I tried doing 
> sed -e "s/\n\t/,/g"
> but apparently command-line sed doesn't like tab characters, or there's
> not enough backslashes or something. Anyway, I got bored too quickly,
> otherwise I'd have done it in Perl by now.
> 
> Sam, where art thou?

Right tool for the right job:

awk 'NR==1 { print; next; } !p { p=$0; next; } { print p, $1; p=""; }'

20/03/2007
11:42 7
11:53 7
12:04 9

using sed will scrunch the first line (the date) in Jameys file all 
wrong, and anyway you used double quotes for the sed command which 
probably interpreted the backslash.