How to randomize two ArrayLists in the same fashion?

I have two arraylist filelist and imgList which related to each other, e.g. “H1.txt” related to “e1.jpg”. How to automatically randomized the list of imgList according to the randomization of fileList? Like in excel, if we sort certain column, the other column will automatically follow?

String [] file = {"H1.txt","H2.txt","H3.txt","M4.txt","M5.txt","M6.txt"};
ArrayList<String> fileList = new ArrayList<String>(Arrays.asList(file));

String [] img = {"e1.jpg","e2.jpg","e3.jpg","e4.jpg","e5.jpg","e6.jpg"};
ArrayList<String> imgList = new ArrayList<String>(Arrays.asList(img));

//randomized files
Collections.shuffle(fileList);

output after randomization e.g.:

fileList = {"M4.txt","M6.txt","H3.txt","M5.txt","H2.txt","H1.txt"};

intended output:

 imgList = {"e4.jpg","e6.jpg","e3.jpg","e5.jpg","e2.jpg","e1.jpg"};

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