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1

have some data and I'm attempting to manipulate with sed with not much success.

Name
John Davis

Phone 
5555555

Name
Tim Watson

Phone
1111111

would like to get that data to sort like this

John Davis 5555555
Tim Watson 1111111

gotten sed to search for the value below 'Name' and 'Phone but can't seem to manipulate it further. Any help would greatly be appreciated.

sed -n '/Name/{n;p;}'
sed -n '/Phone/{n;p;}'
2

What would your further manipulation look like? An upper case N (in lieu of the n ) would suffice to get what have in your desired output...

3

Rudi, that only achieved this:

John Davis
5555555
4

not exactly, but:

awk '{$1="";printf("%s%s", $0, (FNR%2)?OFS:ORS)}' RS= myFile

or better yet:

awk '{printf("%s%s", $2, (FNR%2)?OFS:ORS)}' FS='\n' RS= myFile
5

Sorry, yes - that was a bit short sighted; I could not test it as I was away from my computer.
For exactly the given input, try

sed -n '/Name/{n;x;}; /Phone/{n;H;x; s/\n/ /; p}' file
John Davis 5555555
Tim Watson 1111111
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6

In sed you must combine the two lines into one buffer.
Something like this, yet untested

sed -n '
/^Name/{n;h;}
/^Phone/{n;x;G;s/\n/ /;p;}
'