Merge two files in linux with different column

Question

I have two files in linux, the first file has 4 columns and the second has 2 columns. I want to merge these files into a new file that has the first 3 columns from file 1 an

Answer 1

Not sure which columns you want from each file, but something like this should work:

paste   | awk '{print $1,$2,$3,$5}'

The first three columns would be picked from file1, and the fourth skipped, then pick the first column from the second file.