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

Powershell solution:

$file1 = Get-Content file1
$file2 = Get-Content file2
$outfile = "file3.txt"

for($i = 0; $i -lt $file1.length; $i++) {
  "$($file1[$i])`t$($file2[$i])" | out-file $outfile -Append 
}