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# 1  
Old 01-05-2017
Code:
paste file1 file2

Code:
$ awk 'NR==FNR{a[NR]=$0;next}{print a[FNR],$0}' file1 file2
1 text1
2 text2
3 text3
4 text4

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thomasraj87
# 2  
Old 01-05-2017
Thanks for the solution given. Its works fine. But my exact requirement is, i am having one <td> data in one file and i want to inset that into another file within the <tr> tag. Could you please help me on this.

file1
Code:
<td>1</td>
<td>2</td>
<td>3</td>
<td>4</td>

file2
Code:
<tr><td>text1</td></tr>
<tr><td>text2</td></tr>
<tr><td>text3</td></tr>
<tr><td>text4</td></tr>

output
Code:
<tr><td>1</td><td>text1</td></tr>
<tr><td>2</td><td>text2</td></tr>
<tr><td>3</td><td>text3</td></tr>
<tr><td>4</td><td>text4</td></tr>

# 3  
Old 01-05-2017
Hello thomasraj87,

Could you please try following, not tested with many permutations and combinations though.
Code:
awk 'FNR==NR{A[FNR]=$0;next} {gsub(/<tr>|<\/tr>/,"")} {print "<tr>" A[FNR] $0 "</tr>"}'   Input_file

Thanks,
R. Singh
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