How to paste columns from separate files using bash?

Question

Using the following data:

$cat date1.csv
 Bob,2013-06-03T17:18:07
 James,2013-06-03T17:18:07
 Kevin,2013-06-03T17:18:07

$cat date2.csv
 2012-12-02T18:30:31
         


        

Answer 1

Another way of doing it is with pr

pr -mts, file1 file2

Test:

[jaypal:~/Temp] cat file1
Bob,2013-06-03T17:18:07
James,2013-06-03T17:18:07
Kevin,2013-06-03T17:18:07

[jaypal:~/Temp] cat file2
2012-12-02T18:30:31
2012-12-02T18:28:37
2013-06-01T12:16:05

[jaypal:~/Temp] pr -mts, file1 file2
Bob,2013-06-03T17:18:07,2012-12-02T18:30:31
James,2013-06-03T17:18:07,2012-12-02T18:28:37
Kevin,2013-06-03T17:18:07,2013-06-01T12:16:05