Print out onto same line with ":" separating variables - bash

Question

I have the following piece of code and would like to display HOST and RESULT side by side with a : separating them.
HOST=`grep pers results.txt | cut -d':' -f2 | awk '{print $1}'`
RESULT=`grep cleanup results.txt | cut -d':' -f2 | awk '{print $1}' | sed -e 's/K/000/' -'s/M/000000/'`
echo ${HOST}${RESULT}
Please can anyone assist with the final command to display these, I am just getting all of hosts and then all of results.

Answer 1

You probably want this:
HOST=( `grep pers results.txt | cut -d':' -f2 | awk '{ print $1 }'` ) #keep the output of the command in an array
RESULT=( `grep cleanup results.txt | cut -d':' -f2 | awk '{ print $1 }' | sed -e 's/K/000/' -'s/M/000000/'` )
for i in "${!HOST[#]}"; do
echo "${HOST[$i]}:${RESULT[$i]}"
done

Answer 2

A version that works without arrays, using an extra file handle to read from 2 sources at at time.
while read host; read result <&3; do
echo "$host:$result"
done < <( grep peers results.txt | cut -d: -f2 | awk '{print $1}' ) \
3< <( grep cleanup results.txt | cut -d':' -f2 | awk '{print $1}' | sed -e 's/K/000/' -'s/M/000000/')
It's still not quite POSIX, as it requires process substitution. You could instead use explicit fifes. (Also, an attempt to shorten the pipelines that produce the hosts and results. It's probably possible to combine this into a single awk command, since you can either do the substitution in awk, or pipe to sed from within awk. But this is all off-topic, so I leave it as an exercise to the reader.)
mkfifo hostsrc
mkfifo resultsrc
awk -F: '/peers/ {split($2, a, ' '); print a[1]}' results.txt > hostsrc &
awk -F: '/cleanup/ {split($2, a, ' '); print a[1]}' results.txt | sed -e 's/K/000' -e 's/M/000000/' > resultsrc &
while read host; read result <&3; do
echo "$host:$result"
done < hostsrc 3< resultsrc