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Old 12-10-2008
Ah, so that's what ^ and $ mean. I almost thought "^$" was *another* way of writin a newline character... Good to know!

sed "s/^[0-9]/~&/" < test | tr "\n" " " | tr "~" "\n" | awk '{print $1$2$3}'

Does a good job, how do I add space-sensibility?
If there's a space in the name it drops the rest of the sentence.

So

Code:
3
,
Peter Jan,100

becomes "3,Peter", dropping all the rest.

Awk does a pretty good job, but if a few lines are already in the good order, it concatenates those, too.
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