Printing multi-line variable output into a single column
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I have the following script in works:
#!/bin/bash
IFS=$(echo -en "nb")
echo -e "----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------"
echo -e "| Job Name | Enabled | Client Names | Retention | Schedule | Type |"
echo -e "----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------"
vcenter_name=$(cat /usr/local/vdr/etc/vcenterinfo.cfg | grep vcenter-hostname | cut -d '=' -f 2)
# To extract job names:
job_name=$(mccli group show --recursive=true | grep -i "/$vcenter_name/VirtualMachines" | awk -F/. '{print $(NF-2)}')
for i in $job_name
do
enabled=$(mccli group show --name=/$vcenter_name/VirtualMachines/$i | grep Enabled | awk '{print $NF}')
client_name=$(mccli group show-members --name=/vcenter-prod.happycow.local/VirtualMachines/$i | awk '{print $3}' | tail -n +4 | awk -F/ '{print $NF}')
printf "| %-27s | %7s | %7s | %10s | %7s | %12s |n" "$i" "$enabled" "$client_name"
done
The script runs great but needs some formatting.
The output I get now is:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Job Name | Enabled | Client Names | Retention | Schedule | Type |
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Backup With Space | true | Space | | | |
| Disk-Level | true | | | | |
| Linux-VM | true | | | | |
| Partial | true | | | | |
| Prod-Backup | false | VM-B
VM-D | | | |
| Same-Host | true | | | | |
| Temp | true | esxi02
ESXi-6.5
ESXi6GA | | | |
I would like to see it as:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Job Name | Enabled | Client Names | Retention | Schedule | Type |
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Backup With Space | true | Space | | | |
| Disk-Level | true | | | | |
| Linux-VM | true | | | | |
| Partial | true | | | | |
| Prod-Backup | false | VM-B | | | |
| VM-D | | | |
| Same-Host | true | | | | |
| Temp | true | esxi02
| ESXi6.5
| ESXi6GA | | | |
Ignore the | alignment. I can take care of that one.
So basically, I would like to have the multi value / multi line output of job_name variable under a single column.
bash shell
edited 2 days ago
Rui F Ribeiro
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asked Aug 1 '17 at 21:04
suhas savkoor
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I have the following script in works:
#!/bin/bash
IFS=$(echo -en "nb")
echo -e "----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------"
echo -e "| Job Name | Enabled | Client Names | Retention | Schedule | Type |"
echo -e "----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------"
vcenter_name=$(cat /usr/local/vdr/etc/vcenterinfo.cfg | grep vcenter-hostname | cut -d '=' -f 2)
# To extract job names:
job_name=$(mccli group show --recursive=true | grep -i "/$vcenter_name/VirtualMachines" | awk -F/. '{print $(NF-2)}')
for i in $job_name
do
enabled=$(mccli group show --name=/$vcenter_name/VirtualMachines/$i | grep Enabled | awk '{print $NF}')
client_name=$(mccli group show-members --name=/vcenter-prod.happycow.local/VirtualMachines/$i | awk '{print $3}' | tail -n +4 | awk -F/ '{print $NF}')
printf "| %-27s | %7s | %7s | %10s | %7s | %12s |n" "$i" "$enabled" "$client_name"
done
The script runs great but needs some formatting.
The output I get now is:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Job Name | Enabled | Client Names | Retention | Schedule | Type |
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Backup With Space | true | Space | | | |
| Disk-Level | true | | | | |
| Linux-VM | true | | | | |
| Partial | true | | | | |
| Prod-Backup | false | VM-B
VM-D | | | |
| Same-Host | true | | | | |
| Temp | true | esxi02
ESXi-6.5
ESXi6GA | | | |
I would like to see it as:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Job Name | Enabled | Client Names | Retention | Schedule | Type |
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Backup With Space | true | Space | | | |
| Disk-Level | true | | | | |
| Linux-VM | true | | | | |
| Partial | true | | | | |
| Prod-Backup | false | VM-B | | | |
| VM-D | | | |
| Same-Host | true | | | | |
| Temp | true | esxi02
| ESXi6.5
| ESXi6GA | | | |
Ignore the | alignment. I can take care of that one.
So basically, I would like to have the multi value / multi line output of job_name variable under a single column.
bash shell
edited 2 days ago
Rui F Ribeiro
38.2k1475125
asked Aug 1 '17 at 21:04
suhas savkoor
104116
1. a report script like this would be better written entirely inawkorperl(or anything else but sh or bash) - trying to do it in bash will result in an unreadable mess. BTW,perlhas great built-in report writing capabilities (seeman perlform). 2. we need to sample input, not just the desired output. 3. some basic bash/shell tips: useIFS=$'nb', notIFS=$(echo "nb"); there's no need to pipe cat into grep or grep into awk - both are capable of reading files withoutcat's help. e.g.vcenter_name=$(awk -F= '{print $2}' /usr/local/vdr/etc/vcenterinfo.cfg)
– cas
Aug 2 '17 at 3:56
Thanks. Still learning things in bash, thanks for the input on better scripting. :)
– suhas savkoor
Aug 2 '17 at 18:21
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I have the following script in works:
#!/bin/bash
IFS=$(echo -en "nb")
echo -e "----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------"
echo -e "| Job Name | Enabled | Client Names | Retention | Schedule | Type |"
echo -e "----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------"
vcenter_name=$(cat /usr/local/vdr/etc/vcenterinfo.cfg | grep vcenter-hostname | cut -d '=' -f 2)
# To extract job names:
job_name=$(mccli group show --recursive=true | grep -i "/$vcenter_name/VirtualMachines" | awk -F/. '{print $(NF-2)}')
for i in $job_name
do
enabled=$(mccli group show --name=/$vcenter_name/VirtualMachines/$i | grep Enabled | awk '{print $NF}')
client_name=$(mccli group show-members --name=/vcenter-prod.happycow.local/VirtualMachines/$i | awk '{print $3}' | tail -n +4 | awk -F/ '{print $NF}')
printf "| %-27s | %7s | %7s | %10s | %7s | %12s |n" "$i" "$enabled" "$client_name"
done
The script runs great but needs some formatting.
The output I get now is:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Job Name | Enabled | Client Names | Retention | Schedule | Type |
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Backup With Space | true | Space | | | |
| Disk-Level | true | | | | |
| Linux-VM | true | | | | |
| Partial | true | | | | |
| Prod-Backup | false | VM-B
VM-D | | | |
| Same-Host | true | | | | |
| Temp | true | esxi02
ESXi-6.5
ESXi6GA | | | |
I would like to see it as:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Job Name | Enabled | Client Names | Retention | Schedule | Type |
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Backup With Space | true | Space | | | |
| Disk-Level | true | | | | |
| Linux-VM | true | | | | |
| Partial | true | | | | |
| Prod-Backup | false | VM-B | | | |
| VM-D | | | |
| Same-Host | true | | | | |
| Temp | true | esxi02
| ESXi6.5
| ESXi6GA | | | |
Ignore the | alignment. I can take care of that one.
So basically, I would like to have the multi value / multi line output of job_name variable under a single column.
bash shell
edited 2 days ago
Rui F Ribeiro
38.2k1475125
asked Aug 1 '17 at 21:04
suhas savkoor
104116
I have the following script in works:
#!/bin/bash
IFS=$(echo -en "nb")
echo -e "----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------"
echo -e "| Job Name | Enabled | Client Names | Retention | Schedule | Type |"
echo -e "----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------"
vcenter_name=$(cat /usr/local/vdr/etc/vcenterinfo.cfg | grep vcenter-hostname | cut -d '=' -f 2)
# To extract job names:
job_name=$(mccli group show --recursive=true | grep -i "/$vcenter_name/VirtualMachines" | awk -F/. '{print $(NF-2)}')
for i in $job_name
do
enabled=$(mccli group show --name=/$vcenter_name/VirtualMachines/$i | grep Enabled | awk '{print $NF}')
client_name=$(mccli group show-members --name=/vcenter-prod.happycow.local/VirtualMachines/$i | awk '{print $3}' | tail -n +4 | awk -F/ '{print $NF}')
printf "| %-27s | %7s | %7s | %10s | %7s | %12s |n" "$i" "$enabled" "$client_name"
done
The script runs great but needs some formatting.
The output I get now is:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Job Name | Enabled | Client Names | Retention | Schedule | Type |
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Backup With Space | true | Space | | | |
| Disk-Level | true | | | | |
| Linux-VM | true | | | | |
| Partial | true | | | | |
| Prod-Backup | false | VM-B
VM-D | | | |
| Same-Host | true | | | | |
| Temp | true | esxi02
ESXi-6.5
ESXi6GA | | | |
I would like to see it as:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Job Name | Enabled | Client Names | Retention | Schedule | Type |
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Backup With Space | true | Space | | | |
| Disk-Level | true | | | | |
| Linux-VM | true | | | | |
| Partial | true | | | | |
| Prod-Backup | false | VM-B | | | |
| VM-D | | | |
| Same-Host | true | | | | |
| Temp | true | esxi02
| ESXi6.5
| ESXi6GA | | | |
Ignore the | alignment. I can take care of that one.
So basically, I would like to have the multi value / multi line output of job_name variable under a single column.
bash shell
bash shell
edited 2 days ago
Rui F Ribeiro
38.2k1475125
asked Aug 1 '17 at 21:04
suhas savkoor
104116
edited 2 days ago
Rui F Ribeiro
38.2k1475125
asked Aug 1 '17 at 21:04
suhas savkoor
104116
edited 2 days ago
Rui F Ribeiro
38.2k1475125
edited 2 days ago
Rui F Ribeiro
38.2k1475125
edited 2 days ago
Rui F Ribeiro
38.2k1475125
38.2k1475125
asked Aug 1 '17 at 21:04
suhas savkoor
104116
asked Aug 1 '17 at 21:04
suhas savkoor
104116
asked Aug 1 '17 at 21:04
suhas savkoor
104116
104116
1. a report script like this would be better written entirely inawkorperl(or anything else but sh or bash) - trying to do it in bash will result in an unreadable mess. BTW,perlhas great built-in report writing capabilities (seeman perlform). 2. we need to sample input, not just the desired output. 3. some basic bash/shell tips: useIFS=$'nb', notIFS=$(echo "nb"); there's no need to pipe cat into grep or grep into awk - both are capable of reading files withoutcat's help. e.g.vcenter_name=$(awk -F= '{print $2}' /usr/local/vdr/etc/vcenterinfo.cfg)
– cas
Aug 2 '17 at 3:56
Thanks. Still learning things in bash, thanks for the input on better scripting. :)
– suhas savkoor
Aug 2 '17 at 18:21
add a comment |
1. a report script like this would be better written entirely inawkorperl(or anything else but sh or bash) - trying to do it in bash will result in an unreadable mess. BTW,perlhas great built-in report writing capabilities (seeman perlform). 2. we need to sample input, not just the desired output. 3. some basic bash/shell tips: useIFS=$'nb', notIFS=$(echo "nb"); there's no need to pipe cat into grep or grep into awk - both are capable of reading files withoutcat's help. e.g.vcenter_name=$(awk -F= '{print $2}' /usr/local/vdr/etc/vcenterinfo.cfg)
– cas
Aug 2 '17 at 3:56
Thanks. Still learning things in bash, thanks for the input on better scripting. :)
– suhas savkoor
Aug 2 '17 at 18:21
1. a report script like this would be better written entirely in
awk or perl (or anything else but sh or bash) - trying to do it in bash will result in an unreadable mess. BTW, perl has great built-in report writing capabilities (see man perlform). 2. we need to sample input, not just the desired output. 3. some basic bash/shell tips: use IFS=$'nb', not IFS=$(echo "nb"); there's no need to pipe cat into grep or grep into awk - both are capable of reading files without cat's help. e.g. vcenter_name=$(awk -F= '{print $2}' /usr/local/vdr/etc/vcenterinfo.cfg)– cas
Aug 2 '17 at 3:56
1. a report script like this would be better written entirely in
awk or perl (or anything else but sh or bash) - trying to do it in bash will result in an unreadable mess. BTW, perl has great built-in report writing capabilities (see man perlform). 2. we need to sample input, not just the desired output. 3. some basic bash/shell tips: use IFS=$'nb', not IFS=$(echo "nb"); there's no need to pipe cat into grep or grep into awk - both are capable of reading files without cat's help. e.g. vcenter_name=$(awk -F= '{print $2}' /usr/local/vdr/etc/vcenterinfo.cfg)– cas
Aug 2 '17 at 3:56
Thanks. Still learning things in bash, thanks for the input on better scripting. :)
– suhas savkoor
Aug 2 '17 at 18:21
Thanks. Still learning things in bash, thanks for the input on better scripting. :)
– suhas savkoor
Aug 2 '17 at 18:21
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One approach is the following where we make use of nroff and tbl. We first generate the code for the tbl preprocessor based on the data.
Since I don't have access to your utilities so I have modeled your program behavior on the following, which you'd have to then incorporate in your case:
#!/bin/bash
NL=$'n'
TAB=$'t'
header=( "Job Name" "Enabled" "Client Names" "Retention" "Schedule" "Type" )
job_name=( "Backup With Space" "Disk-Level" "Linux-VM" "Partial" "Prod-Backup" "Same-Host" "Temp" )
enabled=( true true true true false true true )
client=( Space "" "" "" "VM_B${NL}VM_D" "" "esxio2${NL}ESXi-6.5${NL}ESXi6GA" )
{
echo .TS
echo allbox,center,tab($'t');
echo l r l l l l l.
echo "$(IFS=$'t'; echo "${header[*]}")"
for (( i=0; i<${#enabled[@]}; i++ ))
do
var=${client[$i]//$NL/$NL$TAB$TAB}
printf '%st%st%stttn' "${job_name[$i]}" "${enabled[$i]}" "${var}"
done
echo .TE
} | tbl - | nroff -Tascii -ms | grep '.'
Results:
+------------------+---------+--------------+-----------+----------+------+
|Job Name | Enabled | Client Names | Retention | Schedule | Type |
+------------------+---------+--------------+-----------+----------+------+
|Backup With Space | true | Space | | | |
+------------------+---------+--------------+-----------+----------+------+
|Disk-Level | true | | | | |
+------------------+---------+--------------+-----------+----------+------+
|Linux-VM | true | | | | |
+------------------+---------+--------------+-----------+----------+------+
|Partial | true | | | | |
+------------------+---------+--------------+-----------+----------+------+
|Prod-Backup | false | VM_B | | | |
+------------------+---------+--------------+-----------+----------+------+
| | | VM_D | | | |
+------------------+---------+--------------+-----------+----------+------+
|Same-Host | true | | | | |
+------------------+---------+--------------+-----------+----------+------+
|Temp | true | esxio2 | | | |
+------------------+---------+--------------+-----------+----------+------+
| | | ESXi-6.5 | | | |
+------------------+---------+--------------+-----------+----------+------+
| | | ESXi6GA | | | |
+------------------+---------+--------------+-----------+----------+------+
Thanks for all the suggestions. I was able to get this done by adding a loop for the client list and add "" to ignore additional values. Thanks.
– suhas savkoor
Aug 2 '17 at 18:20
+1. nice, i was thinking of doing something similar with markdown but got distracted by real life.
– cas
Aug 2 '17 at 18:31
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1 Answer
1
active
oldest
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active
oldest
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active
oldest
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up vote
1
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One approach is the following where we make use of nroff and tbl. We first generate the code for the tbl preprocessor based on the data.
Since I don't have access to your utilities so I have modeled your program behavior on the following, which you'd have to then incorporate in your case:
#!/bin/bash
NL=$'n'
TAB=$'t'
header=( "Job Name" "Enabled" "Client Names" "Retention" "Schedule" "Type" )
job_name=( "Backup With Space" "Disk-Level" "Linux-VM" "Partial" "Prod-Backup" "Same-Host" "Temp" )
enabled=( true true true true false true true )
client=( Space "" "" "" "VM_B${NL}VM_D" "" "esxio2${NL}ESXi-6.5${NL}ESXi6GA" )
{
echo .TS
echo allbox,center,tab($'t');
echo l r l l l l l.
echo "$(IFS=$'t'; echo "${header[*]}")"
for (( i=0; i<${#enabled[@]}; i++ ))
do
var=${client[$i]//$NL/$NL$TAB$TAB}
printf '%st%st%stttn' "${job_name[$i]}" "${enabled[$i]}" "${var}"
done
echo .TE
} | tbl - | nroff -Tascii -ms | grep '.'
Results:
+------------------+---------+--------------+-----------+----------+------+
|Job Name | Enabled | Client Names | Retention | Schedule | Type |
+------------------+---------+--------------+-----------+----------+------+
|Backup With Space | true | Space | | | |
+------------------+---------+--------------+-----------+----------+------+
|Disk-Level | true | | | | |
+------------------+---------+--------------+-----------+----------+------+
|Linux-VM | true | | | | |
+------------------+---------+--------------+-----------+----------+------+
|Partial | true | | | | |
+------------------+---------+--------------+-----------+----------+------+
|Prod-Backup | false | VM_B | | | |
+------------------+---------+--------------+-----------+----------+------+
| | | VM_D | | | |
+------------------+---------+--------------+-----------+----------+------+
|Same-Host | true | | | | |
+------------------+---------+--------------+-----------+----------+------+
|Temp | true | esxio2 | | | |
+------------------+---------+--------------+-----------+----------+------+
| | | ESXi-6.5 | | | |
+------------------+---------+--------------+-----------+----------+------+
| | | ESXi6GA | | | |
+------------------+---------+--------------+-----------+----------+------+
Thanks for all the suggestions. I was able to get this done by adding a loop for the client list and add "" to ignore additional values. Thanks.
– suhas savkoor
Aug 2 '17 at 18:20
+1. nice, i was thinking of doing something similar with markdown but got distracted by real life.
– cas
Aug 2 '17 at 18:31
add a comment |
up vote
1
down vote
One approach is the following where we make use of nroff and tbl. We first generate the code for the tbl preprocessor based on the data.
Since I don't have access to your utilities so I have modeled your program behavior on the following, which you'd have to then incorporate in your case:
#!/bin/bash
NL=$'n'
TAB=$'t'
header=( "Job Name" "Enabled" "Client Names" "Retention" "Schedule" "Type" )
job_name=( "Backup With Space" "Disk-Level" "Linux-VM" "Partial" "Prod-Backup" "Same-Host" "Temp" )
enabled=( true true true true false true true )
client=( Space "" "" "" "VM_B${NL}VM_D" "" "esxio2${NL}ESXi-6.5${NL}ESXi6GA" )
{
echo .TS
echo allbox,center,tab($'t');
echo l r l l l l l.
echo "$(IFS=$'t'; echo "${header[*]}")"
for (( i=0; i<${#enabled[@]}; i++ ))
do
var=${client[$i]//$NL/$NL$TAB$TAB}
printf '%st%st%stttn' "${job_name[$i]}" "${enabled[$i]}" "${var}"
done
echo .TE
} | tbl - | nroff -Tascii -ms | grep '.'
Results:
+------------------+---------+--------------+-----------+----------+------+
|Job Name | Enabled | Client Names | Retention | Schedule | Type |
+------------------+---------+--------------+-----------+----------+------+
|Backup With Space | true | Space | | | |
+------------------+---------+--------------+-----------+----------+------+
|Disk-Level | true | | | | |
+------------------+---------+--------------+-----------+----------+------+
|Linux-VM | true | | | | |
+------------------+---------+--------------+-----------+----------+------+
|Partial | true | | | | |
+------------------+---------+--------------+-----------+----------+------+
|Prod-Backup | false | VM_B | | | |
+------------------+---------+--------------+-----------+----------+------+
| | | VM_D | | | |
+------------------+---------+--------------+-----------+----------+------+
|Same-Host | true | | | | |
+------------------+---------+--------------+-----------+----------+------+
|Temp | true | esxio2 | | | |
+------------------+---------+--------------+-----------+----------+------+
| | | ESXi-6.5 | | | |
+------------------+---------+--------------+-----------+----------+------+
| | | ESXi6GA | | | |
+------------------+---------+--------------+-----------+----------+------+
Thanks for all the suggestions. I was able to get this done by adding a loop for the client list and add "" to ignore additional values. Thanks.
– suhas savkoor
Aug 2 '17 at 18:20
+1. nice, i was thinking of doing something similar with markdown but got distracted by real life.
– cas
Aug 2 '17 at 18:31
add a comment |
up vote
1
down vote
up vote
1
down vote
One approach is the following where we make use of nroff and tbl. We first generate the code for the tbl preprocessor based on the data.
Since I don't have access to your utilities so I have modeled your program behavior on the following, which you'd have to then incorporate in your case:
#!/bin/bash
NL=$'n'
TAB=$'t'
header=( "Job Name" "Enabled" "Client Names" "Retention" "Schedule" "Type" )
job_name=( "Backup With Space" "Disk-Level" "Linux-VM" "Partial" "Prod-Backup" "Same-Host" "Temp" )
enabled=( true true true true false true true )
client=( Space "" "" "" "VM_B${NL}VM_D" "" "esxio2${NL}ESXi-6.5${NL}ESXi6GA" )
{
echo .TS
echo allbox,center,tab($'t');
echo l r l l l l l.
echo "$(IFS=$'t'; echo "${header[*]}")"
for (( i=0; i<${#enabled[@]}; i++ ))
do
var=${client[$i]//$NL/$NL$TAB$TAB}
printf '%st%st%stttn' "${job_name[$i]}" "${enabled[$i]}" "${var}"
done
echo .TE
} | tbl - | nroff -Tascii -ms | grep '.'
Results:
+------------------+---------+--------------+-----------+----------+------+
|Job Name | Enabled | Client Names | Retention | Schedule | Type |
+------------------+---------+--------------+-----------+----------+------+
|Backup With Space | true | Space | | | |
+------------------+---------+--------------+-----------+----------+------+
|Disk-Level | true | | | | |
+------------------+---------+--------------+-----------+----------+------+
|Linux-VM | true | | | | |
+------------------+---------+--------------+-----------+----------+------+
|Partial | true | | | | |
+------------------+---------+--------------+-----------+----------+------+
|Prod-Backup | false | VM_B | | | |
+------------------+---------+--------------+-----------+----------+------+
| | | VM_D | | | |
+------------------+---------+--------------+-----------+----------+------+
|Same-Host | true | | | | |
+------------------+---------+--------------+-----------+----------+------+
|Temp | true | esxio2 | | | |
+------------------+---------+--------------+-----------+----------+------+
| | | ESXi-6.5 | | | |
+------------------+---------+--------------+-----------+----------+------+
| | | ESXi6GA | | | |
+------------------+---------+--------------+-----------+----------+------+
One approach is the following where we make use of nroff and tbl. We first generate the code for the tbl preprocessor based on the data.
Since I don't have access to your utilities so I have modeled your program behavior on the following, which you'd have to then incorporate in your case:
#!/bin/bash
NL=$'n'
TAB=$'t'
header=( "Job Name" "Enabled" "Client Names" "Retention" "Schedule" "Type" )
job_name=( "Backup With Space" "Disk-Level" "Linux-VM" "Partial" "Prod-Backup" "Same-Host" "Temp" )
enabled=( true true true true false true true )
client=( Space "" "" "" "VM_B${NL}VM_D" "" "esxio2${NL}ESXi-6.5${NL}ESXi6GA" )
{
echo .TS
echo allbox,center,tab($'t');
echo l r l l l l l.
echo "$(IFS=$'t'; echo "${header[*]}")"
for (( i=0; i<${#enabled[@]}; i++ ))
do
var=${client[$i]//$NL/$NL$TAB$TAB}
printf '%st%st%stttn' "${job_name[$i]}" "${enabled[$i]}" "${var}"
done
echo .TE
} | tbl - | nroff -Tascii -ms | grep '.'
Results:
+------------------+---------+--------------+-----------+----------+------+
|Job Name | Enabled | Client Names | Retention | Schedule | Type |
+------------------+---------+--------------+-----------+----------+------+
|Backup With Space | true | Space | | | |
+------------------+---------+--------------+-----------+----------+------+
|Disk-Level | true | | | | |
+------------------+---------+--------------+-----------+----------+------+
|Linux-VM | true | | | | |
+------------------+---------+--------------+-----------+----------+------+
|Partial | true | | | | |
+------------------+---------+--------------+-----------+----------+------+
|Prod-Backup | false | VM_B | | | |
+------------------+---------+--------------+-----------+----------+------+
| | | VM_D | | | |
+------------------+---------+--------------+-----------+----------+------+
|Same-Host | true | | | | |
+------------------+---------+--------------+-----------+----------+------+
|Temp | true | esxio2 | | | |
+------------------+---------+--------------+-----------+----------+------+
| | | ESXi-6.5 | | | |
+------------------+---------+--------------+-----------+----------+------+
| | | ESXi6GA | | | |
+------------------+---------+--------------+-----------+----------+------+
answered Aug 2 '17 at 6:25
user218374
Thanks for all the suggestions. I was able to get this done by adding a loop for the client list and add "" to ignore additional values. Thanks.
– suhas savkoor
Aug 2 '17 at 18:20
+1. nice, i was thinking of doing something similar with markdown but got distracted by real life.
– cas
Aug 2 '17 at 18:31
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Thanks for all the suggestions. I was able to get this done by adding a loop for the client list and add "" to ignore additional values. Thanks.
– suhas savkoor
Aug 2 '17 at 18:20
+1. nice, i was thinking of doing something similar with markdown but got distracted by real life.
– cas
Aug 2 '17 at 18:31
Thanks for all the suggestions. I was able to get this done by adding a loop for the client list and add "" to ignore additional values. Thanks.
– suhas savkoor
Aug 2 '17 at 18:20
Thanks for all the suggestions. I was able to get this done by adding a loop for the client list and add "" to ignore additional values. Thanks.
– suhas savkoor
Aug 2 '17 at 18:20
+1. nice, i was thinking of doing something similar with markdown but got distracted by real life.
– cas
Aug 2 '17 at 18:31
+1. nice, i was thinking of doing something similar with markdown but got distracted by real life.
– cas
Aug 2 '17 at 18:31
add a comment |
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1. a report script like this would be better written entirely in
awkorperl(or anything else but sh or bash) - trying to do it in bash will result in an unreadable mess. BTW,perlhas great built-in report writing capabilities (seeman perlform). 2. we need to sample input, not just the desired output. 3. some basic bash/shell tips: useIFS=$'nb', notIFS=$(echo "nb"); there's no need to pipe cat into grep or grep into awk - both are capable of reading files withoutcat's help. e.g.vcenter_name=$(awk -F= '{print $2}' /usr/local/vdr/etc/vcenterinfo.cfg)– cas
Aug 2 '17 at 3:56
Thanks. Still learning things in bash, thanks for the input on better scripting. :)
– suhas savkoor
Aug 2 '17 at 18:21