Combine output of two command in unix system

Question

I need to combine output of two commands.

For example:

If I input ls -l && file * it will give me

-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user 1356 2012-01-21 07:45 string.c
-rwxrwxr-x 1 user user 7298 2012-01-21 07:32 string_out
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user  777 2012-01-18 21:44 test

string.c:   ASCII C program text, with CRLF line terminators
string_out: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.15, not stripped
test:       POSIX shell script text executable

but what I want is:

-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user 1356 2012-01-21 07:45 string.c string.c:   ASCII C program text, with CRLF line terminators
-rwxrwxr-x 1 user user 7298 2012-01-21 07:32 string_out string_out: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.15, not stripped
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user  777 2012-01-18 21:44 test test:       POSIX shell script text executable

Any suggestions how to do this?

Answer 1

paste is your friend here. Using bash process substitution:

paste <(ls -l | sed 1d) <(file *)

edit: added sed command to delete first line of ls output ("total: xx")