how to read a random line from 2 files and put them together

Question

so I tried shuf -n 1 filename in bash and it showed me a random line, but I want to be able to do this on my own website with 2 files and the outputs combined.

Answer 1

With paste, shuf and bash's process substitution:

paste -d " " <(shuf -n 1 file1) <(shuf -n 1 file2)

Output (example):

one two three canada