CMD or Powershell command to combine (merge) corresponding lines from two files

Question

Is it possible using CMD and Powershell to combine 2 files into 1 file like this:

file1-line1 tab file2-line1
file1-line2 tab file2-line2
file1-line3 tab file2-li         


        

Answer 1

In PowerShell, and assuming both files have exactly the same number of lines:

$f1 = Get-Content file1
$f2 = Get-Content file2

for ($i = 0; $i -lt $f1.Length; ++$i) {
  $f1[$i] + "`t" + $f2[$i]
}