zip columns from separate files together in bash
bash
Solution
NAME
`paste` -- merge corresponding or subsequent lines of files
SYNOPSIS
`paste [-s] [-d list] file ...`
DESCRIPTION
The `paste` utility concatenates the corresponding lines of the given input files, replacing all but the last file's newline characters with a single tab character, and writes the resulting lines to standard output.
Problem
I have two files which both contain a list of words. Is there an easy way to zip the contents of the files into one new file in bash, so that the resultant file would have two columns like this: ``` file1_line1 file2_line1 file1_line2 file2_line2 file1_line3 file2_line3 file1_line4 file2_line4 ```