How to merge two arrays in a zipper like fashion in Bash?

Question

I am trying to merge two arrays into one in a zipper like fashion. I have difficulty to make that happen.

array1=(one three five seven)
array2=(two four six          


        

Answer 1

I've found more common the case where I want to zip two arrays into two columns. This isn't as natively Zsh as the "RTLinuxSW" answer, but for this case, I use paste.

% tabs 16
% paste <(print -l $array1) <(print -l $array2)
one     two
three   four
five    six
seven   eight

And then can shove that into another array to get the intended output:

% array3=( `!!`«tab»«tab» )
% print $array3
one two three four five six seven eight