I'm looking for a solution for the following simple problem. I have two files, fileA
and fileB
. Each file contains only one word per line, and they contain exactly the same number of lines.
I would like to create a new file called fileAB
, where the i-th line contains the i-th line of fileA
, a Tab separator character, and then the i-th line of fileB
. I know how to do it in Python or other scripting languages, but it would be nice to have a bash one-liner for that.
Is it possible to do this in bash or any other Unix shell, using the tools that are usually available on the command line (e.g., sed
, awk
and such)?