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How to concatenate strings formatted with printf in bash

I need to combine several lines in a loop and assign the result to a variable:

Example formatted string:

result=$(printf '| %-15s| %-25s| %-15s| %-15s| %-15s\n' $size $name $visits $inbound $outbound);

In my opinion, it should work as follows:

result=''
while read somevar
do
    ...
    outbound=`cat "$www_path/$name/access.log"|grep \`date +"%d/%b/%Y"\`|awk '{ sum+=$11} END {print sum/1024/1024}'`
    result=$(printf '%s| %-15s| %-25s| %-15s| %-15s| %-15s\n' $result $size $name $visits $inbound $outbound);
    ...
done
echo $result

But this is not so: (

UPD:

Full list of codes below:

www_path='/var/www';
result='';
cd /var/www/; ls -d */ | while read i ; do basename "$i" ; done
while read i;
do du -sh "$i"|
        while read size name
        do
                visits=`cat "$www_path/$name/access.log"|grep \`date +"%d/%b/%Y"\`|grep -v "internal dummy connection"|awk -F ' ' '{print $1}'  | sort | uniq | wc -l|tr '\n' '\t'|sed 's/$/\t/'`
                inbound=`cat "$www_path/$name/access.log"|grep \`date +"%d/%b/%Y"\`|grep -v "internal dummy connection"|awk '{ sum+=$10} END {print sum/1024/1024}'|tr '\n' '\t'|sed  's/$/\t\t/'`
                outbound=`cat "$www_path/$name/access.log"|grep \`date +"%d/%b/%Y"\`|grep -v "internal dummy connection"|awk '{ sum+=$11} END {print sum/1024/1024}'`;
                result=$(printf '%s| %-15s| %-25s| %-15s| %-15s| %-15s\n' "$result" "$size" "$name" "$visits" "$inbound" "$outbound")
        done
done
echo $result
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Use double quotes around $ result and all other variables that may contain spaces and other special characters if they are to be used as one argument for a program or built-in function:

result=$(printf '%s| %-15s| %-25s| %-15s| %-15s| %-15s\n' "$result" "$size" "$name" "$visits" "$inbound" "$outbound")

If you just want to assign the result of printf to a variable (like you), you can also use

printf -v result '%s| %-15s| %-25s| %-15s| %-15s| %-15s\n' "$result" "$size" "$name" "$visits" "$inbound" "$outbound"

BTW: + =, (. bash , ).

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echo $result

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result=""
for name in /var/www/* ; do 
    read size __ < <(du -sh "$name")
    name=${name##*/}
    #insert the other stuff here and add arguments to printf
    printf -v line '| %-15s| %-25s\n' "$size" "$name"
    result+=$line
done
echo "$result"

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result=$(printf '...' "$result" "$size" "$name" ...)

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