Output multiple commands into columns

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I'm trying to write a script which runs various commands and outputs the result of each command into one column but I'm not able to get the output ot be displayed in colums.

#!/bin/bash

# Get GBP Neighbour NAMES
NEIGHBOR=$(vtysh -c 'show ip bgp neighbors' | grep Incoming | awk '{print $7}')

# Get IPs of BGP neighbours
IP=$(vtysh -c 'show ip bgp summary' | awk '{print $1}' | head -n -2 | tail -n +6)

# Get Up/Down time
TIME=$(vtysh -c 'show ip bgp summary' | awk '{print $9}' | head -n -2 | tail -n +6)

# Get State/PfxRcd
STATE=$(vtysh -c 'show ip bgp summary' | awk '{print $10}' | head -n -2 | tail -n +6)

How can I get the output to be separated in columns such as:

NEIGHBOR | IP | TIME | STATE

RomanPerekhrest · Accepted Answer · 2017-11-14 12:00:27Z

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With paste command:

paste -d'|' <(echo "$NEIGHBOR ") <(echo "$IP") <(echo "$TIME") <(echo "$STATE")

answered Nov 14, 2017 at 12:00

RomanPerekhrest

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3 Comments

Kevin Maschke Over a year ago

Wow! Great! Anyway to make the columns have the same width? to make it look cleaner and easier to read?

RomanPerekhrest Over a year ago

@KevinMaschke, try to pipe to column command, paste ... | column -s'|' -t

Kevin Maschke Over a year ago

Thanks @RomanPerekhrest ! Adding | column -s '|' -t did the trick! I edited the question with the final result!

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