How to merge two files line by line in Bash

Question

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

User · Accepted Answer

You can use paste   paste file1 txt file2 txt  gt  fileresults txt

User · Answer

Check  man paste   possible followed by some command like untabify or tabs2spaces

User · Answer

Try following    pr -tmJ a txt b txt  gt  c txt

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here s non-paste methods  awk  awk  BEGIN  OFS         getline line  lt   file2    print  0 line     file1   Bash  exec 6 lt  file2  while read -r line do     read -r f2line  lt  amp 6     echo    line   f2line   done  lt  file1  exec 6 lt  amp -

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

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