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Old 04-28-2008
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If your shell supports it:


Code:
paste <(cut -f2 file1.txt) <(cut -f2 file2.txt)

If you can't get the <(...) syntax to work, you will need temporary files, at least for one of the cuts.


Code:
cut -f2 file1.txt >tmp
cut -f2 file2.txt | paste tmp -

cut and paste normally work on tab-delimited input; if you have variable amounts of spaces as separators, awk is definitely the way to go.