How to print multi-line variables in side-by-side columns in sh?

Question

This question is based on similar question at https://askubuntu.com/a/1066404/1069309, but instead of bash, I would like to have similar output in sh

No issue in bash, it work as expected.

wolf@linux:~$ echo $SHELL
/usr/bin/bash
wolf@linux:~$ 
wolf@linux:~$ varA='Aug 01
> Aug 16
> Aug 26'
wolf@linux:~$ 
wolf@linux:~$ varB='04:25
> 03:39
> 10:06'
wolf@linux:~$ 
wolf@linux:~$ echo "$varA $varB"
Aug 01
Aug 16
Aug 26 04:25
03:39
10:06
wolf@linux:~$
wolf@linux:~$ paste <(printf %s "$varA") <(printf %s "$varB")
Aug 01  04:25
Aug 16  03:39
Aug 26  10:06
wolf@linux:~$ 

However, when I try similar command in sh, I'm getting the following error.

wolf@linux:~$ sh
$ 
$ varA='Aug 01
Aug 16
Aug 26'

$ varB='04:25
03:39
10:06'> > 
$ 
$ echo "$varA $varB"
Aug 01
Aug 16
Aug 26 04:25
03:39
10:06
$ 
$ paste <(printf %s "$varA") <(printf %s "$varB")
sh: 22: Syntax error: "(" unexpected
$ 

Is it possible to get similar output in sh?

Answer 1

If your variables have the same number of lines then you could use the pr command to print standard output into two columns ex.

$ printf '%s\n' "$varA" "$varB" | pr -2 -Ts^I       
Aug 01  04:25
Aug 16  03:39
Aug 26  10:06

where ^I stands for the TAB character (to be consistent with the default separator of the paste command) and may be introduced using key combination Ctrl+V TAB, while -T turns off headers and footers.