How to print two arrays side by side with bash script?
Here's a "one-liner":
paste <(printf "%s\n" "${terms[@]}") <(printf "%s\n" "${defs[@]}")This will create lines consisting of a term and a def separated by a tab, which might not, strictly speaking, be "side by side" (since they're not really in columns). If you knew how wide the first column should be, you could use something like:
paste -d' ' <(printf "%-12.12s\n" "${terms[@]}") <(printf "%s\n" "${defs[@]}")which will pad or truncate the terms to 12 characters exactly, and then put a space between the two columns instead of a tab (-d' ').