[Solved] Script to concatenate 2 files with the same number of lines

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi everyone,
I have two files, namely:
file1:

file1Col1Row1;file1Col2Row1;file1Col3Row1
file1Col1Row2;file1Col2Row2;file1Col3Row2
file1Col1Row3;file1Col2Row3;file1Col3Row3

file2:

file2Col1Row1;file2Col2Row1;file2Col3Row1
file2Col1Row2;file2Col2Row2;file2Col3Row2
file2Col1Row3;file2Col2Row3;file2Col3Row3

I need to concatenate both files line by line so that the output will be:

file1Col1Row1;file1Col2Row1;file1Col3Row1;file2Col1Row1;file2Col2Row1;file2Col3Row1
file1Col1Row2;file1Col2Row2;file1Col3Row2;file2Col1Row2;file2Col2Row2;file2Col3Row2
file1Col1Row3;file1Col2Row3;file1Col3Row3;file2Col1Row3;file2Col2Row3;file2Col3Row3

The only way I can think of is using 2 nested while loops that read from each file and output to another file, but I don't know if there's a more efficient way?
Any ideas will be more than welcome. Thanks in advance.

---------- Post updated at 07:18 PM ---------- Previous update was at 07:02 PM ----------

I found the answer:

gacanepa@Gabriel-PC ~/stuff/scripts/bash $ cat file1
file1Col1Row1;file1Col2Row1;file1Col3Row1
file1Col1Row2;file1Col2Row2;file1Col3Row2
file1Col1Row3;file1Col2Row3;file1Col3Row3
gacanepa@Gabriel-PC ~/stuff/scripts/bash $ cat file2
file2Col1Row1;file2Col2Row1;file2Col3Row1
file2Col1Row2;file2Col2Row2;file2Col3Row2
file2Col1Row3;file2Col2Row3;file2Col3Row3
gacanepa@Gabriel-PC ~/stuff/scripts/bash $ paste -d";" file1 file2
file1Col1Row1;file1Col2Row1;file1Col3Row1;file2Col1Row1;file2Col2Row1;file2Col3Row1
file1Col1Row2;file1Col2Row2;file1Col3Row2;file2Col1Row2;file2Col2Row2;file2Col3Row2
file1Col1Row3;file1Col2Row3;file1Col3Row3;file2Col1Row3;file2Col2Row3;file2Col3Row3

---------- Post updated at 07:20 PM ---------- Previous update was at 07:18 PM ----------

I need the help of a moderator here to mark this thread as solved. I believe I can't do it since I found the answer before any one replied to the post.