Inserting a column from one file into another big file

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi

I have two files, one is 1.6 GB. I would like to add one extra column of information to the large file at a specific location (after its 2nd column).

For example:

File 1 has two columns more than 1000 rows like this

MM009987 1

File 2 looks like this

MM00098 MM00076 3 4 2 4 2 1 3 2 1 2 4 3 1 2 4 2 1 3 4 1 3 4 ....etc

I would like to insert the 2nd column from File 1 after the 2nd column of File 2

Thank you for any help on this!

(I already posted this, but I don't see it listed in the new posts. So, I'm submitting it again)

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is your file1 and file2 contain same no of lines??