[bash] How to merge two files line by line in Bash

I have two text files, each of them contains an information by line such like that

file1.txt            file2.txt
----------           ---------
linef11              linef21
linef12              linef22
linef13              linef23
 .                    .
 .                    .
 .                    .

I would like to merge theses files lines by lines using a bash script in order to obtain:

fileresult.txt
--------------
linef11     linef21
linef12     linef22
linef13     linef23
 .           .
 .           .
 .           .

How can this be done in Bash?

here's non-paste methods

awk

awk 'BEGIN {OFS=" "}{
  getline line < "file2"
  print $0,line
} ' file1

Bash

exec 6<"file2"
while read -r line
do
    read -r f2line <&6
    echo "${line}${f2line}"
done <"file1"
exec 6<&-

Check

man paste

possible followed by some command like untabify or tabs2spaces

Try following.

pr -tmJ a.txt b.txt > c.txt