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awk '{getline p<f; printf "%50-s%50-s\n",$0,p}' f=file2 file1

Read line from file1 then read line from file2Strcat the two to one line and output to file3
Rinse and repeat until eof


-Chris

The following example was done with only one sample file. In your case, you would not re-use filenames -- your paste command would be files __32a and __33 (for instance).

$ cat sample32.txt...