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Old 04-26-2010
Appending data to the end of a line

I have searched the forms and I can not find info on appending each line of one file to the same line of another file. I know that I can cat one file to another or append the 2nd file to the end of the 1st but not quite sure how to append one line of data to another. For example

File 1 has
date1
data2
date3
.
.
.daten

File 2 has
dataA
dataB
dataC
.
.
.dataZ

How do I get a file that appends file 2 to the end of each line in file 1 so that is looks like this
data1 dataA
data2 dataB
data3 dataC
.
.
datan dataZ
# 2  
Old 04-26-2010
look into 'man paste'
# 3  
Old 04-26-2010
THANK YOU!!!
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