in reply to Merging larges files by columns

$ cat file1.csv a,b,c d,e,f g,h,i j,k,l $ cat file2.csv 0,w 1,x 2,y 3,z
$paste -d, file1.csv <(cut -d, -f2 file2.csv) > merged.csv
$ cat merged.csv a,b,c,w d,e,f,x g,h,i,y j,k,l,z