The -N or –skip-column-names is a convenient option with the mysql client to skip the header line of output.
However I found when viewing the output via the terminal, some interesting and unexplained output.

$ mysql -h*** -u*** -p -e "SELECT VARIABLE_NAME,VARIABLE_VALUE FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.GLOBAL_STATUS"
+--------------------------------+----------------+
| VARIABLE_NAME                  | VARIABLE_VALUE |
+--------------------------------+----------------+
| ABORTED_CLIENTS                | 710001         |
| ABORTED_CONNECTS               | 31             |
| BINLOG_CACHE_DISK_USE          | 0              |
| BINLOG_CACHE_USE               | 0              |
| BYTES_RECEIVED                 | 2522301004     |
| BYTES_SENT                     | 317785976      |
| COM_ADMIN_COMMANDS             | 2890667        |
| COM_ASSIGN_TO_KEYCACHE         | 0              |
| COM_ALTER_DB                   | 0              |
| COM_ALTER_DB_UPGRADE           | 0              |

$ mysql -N -h*** -u*** -p -e "SELECT VARIABLE_NAME,VARIABLE_VALUE FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.GLOBAL_STATUS"
+--------------------------------+--------------+
|                ABORTED_CLIENTS |       710001 |
|               ABORTED_CONNECTS |           31 |
|          BINLOG_CACHE_DISK_USE |            0 |
|               BINLOG_CACHE_USE |            0 |
|                 BYTES_RECEIVED |   2522947764 |
|                     BYTES_SENT |    348838502 |
|             COM_ADMIN_COMMANDS |      2890742 |

As you can see all the values of the first column are right aligned in terminal display. When written to a file (which is the intended outcome), the data is not.

$ mysql ... > /tmp/x
$ head /tmp/x
ABORTED_CLIENTS	710009
ABORTED_CONNECTS	31
BINLOG_CACHE_DISK_USE	0
BINLOG_CACHE_USE	0
BYTES_RECEIVED	2526760299
BYTES_SENT	530046795
COM_ADMIN_COMMANDS	2890742
COM_ASSIGN_TO_KEYCACHE	0
COM_ALTER_DB	0
COM_ALTER_DB_UPGRADE	0