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.






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  • 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

















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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







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  • 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















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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







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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.






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  • 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




















  • 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


















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      |           |          |      |

+------------------+---------+--------------+-----------+----------+------+





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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











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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      |           |          |      |

+------------------+---------+--------------+-----------+----------+------+





share|improve this answer





















  • 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















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      |           |          |      |

+------------------+---------+--------------+-----------+----------+------+





share|improve this answer





















  • 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













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      |           |          |      |

+------------------+---------+--------------+-----------+----------+------+





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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      |           |          |      |

+------------------+---------+--------------+-----------+----------+------+






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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










  • +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


















 

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