in reply to How do you create a tab delimited txt file from two files?

An awk solution,

awk 'NR==FNR{a[NR]=$0;next}{a[FNR]=a[FNR]"\t"$0}END{for(x=1;x<=FNR;x++
+){print a[x]}}' file1 file2

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