Bash: Redirecting Input from Multiple Files

"For the sake of this example, let's say that we want to implement a simple version of the paste command as a bash script. The paste command reads a line from each of its input files and then pastes them together and writes the combined result to stdout as a single line. Our example version will only do this for two input files."

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