Convert Header into Column in Text file


 
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Old 08-06-2007
sed + awk

I think you can try follow:
1>find out the 2007-12-01 in your file
2>add it to the beginner of your input file
3> use temp file 11.txt to store 'Header2007-12-012007-11-21'
as 'Header,2007-12-01,2007-11-21'

Code:
sed -n '1s/\([0-9]\{4\}-[0-9]\{2\}-[0-9]\{2\}\)/,&1,/p' 1.txt > 11.txt
temp=`awk 'BEGIN{FS=","} {print $2}' 11.txt`
awk '{if (NR!=1) printf("%s|%s\n","'"$temp"'",$0)}' 1.txt

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