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combine two files...

Hi,

i have two files. i want to combine records from these two files in below manner :-

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first line from first file(1st line)
2nd line from 2nd file(1st line)
3rd line from 1st file(2nd line)
4th line from 2nd file(2nd line)
so on....

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paste -d'\n' 1stfile 2ndfile

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