Scripting question

["Michael French" <mfrench@ashevillemail.com>]

    I have a couple of scripts that I am working on that pull data from an
application and print a human readable report from the data.  I have all of
the data pulled and stored in variables, but I am stumped on how to put in
all in one file.  I hope that I can clearly explain this, here goes.

    For one script, I have three pieces of info to report: node name,
customer name, and total data stored.  The first two bits of data are
getting pulled out together and stored in one file.  The third bit is being
calculated and then stored in a second file.  I then get the data in like
this:

NODES=`cat nodeinfo.txt | awk '{print $1}'`
CUSTOMER=`cat nodeinfo.txt | awk '{print $2}'`
MBTOTALS=`cat mbtotals.txt`

I then need to print out a report like:

Nodes        Customer        MB
----------------------------------
node1           customer1        20.0

How can I do this?  I can't seem to figure out how to do it with one for
loop.

    I have another little script I am working on to report restore data and
it has one temp file holding all of the info I need and is greping out about
10 different pieces of data I need before overwriting the temp file with the
info on the next node.  The problem I have run into is that some of the
restores have duplicate data in them so I am going to have to rewrite the
report to put the data in variables and then loop through them to generate a
report just like the one above, except with more variables so you can see
why I am trying to figure out how to do this as cleanly as possible.  Maybe
I am starting off all wrong so feel free to redirect me.  Also, I am using
Korn shell to do this (my only option).

Thanks!

Michael French