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Joining lines and find pattern

I have a file that does not have much formatting. I would like every time it finds a tag (something that starts with < and end with > like <Tag1> ) to be at the beginning of the line and joined with the next line. I tried sed with append and can not get it right and also hold and get in sed without luck.

Ex. I have a file that look something like this:

I need to send you a file today and I
need to talk to you. <Tagger1> Ok, send
me the file. <Tag2> I will if you can give
me an address. <Ttt3> I will give you
an address as soon as I can talk
to Mark in shipping. <Tagg2> Alright talk
to Mark and get back to me. <Taggg4> Ok,
will do. <Tagger4> I talk to Mark. <Tg4> What
did he say?. <Tagger3> He gave me the business
address.

It should look like this:

I need to send you a file today and I
need to talk to you.
<Tagger1> Ok, send me the file.
<Tag2> I will if you can give me an address.
<Ttt3> I will give you an address as soon as I can talk
to Mark in shipping.
<Tagg2> Alright talk to Mark and get back to me.
<Taggg4> Ok, will do.
<Tagger4> I talk to Mark.
<Tg4> What did he say?.
<Tagger3> He gave me the business address.

Any suggestion on how to search and join lines and separate tags onto it's line would be appreciated.

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QSTAIL(1)							  qstail man page							 QSTAIL(1)

NAME

       qstail - Utility prints the end of a log file starting at the specified pattern.

SYNOPSIS

       qstail -i <path> -p <pattern>

DESCRIPTION

       qstail  shows  the end of a log file beginning with the line containing the specified pattern. This may be used to show all lines which has
       been written after a certain event (e.g., server restart) or time stamp.

OPTIONS

       -i <path>
	      Input file to read the data from.

       -p <pattern>
	      Search pattern (literal string).

SEE ALSO

       qsexec(1), qsfilter2(1), qsgeo(1), qsgrep(1), qslog(1), qslogger(1), qspng(1), qsrotate(1), qssign(1)

AUTHOR

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