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  • There used to be a very similar question somewhere at SE a few months ago. Anyway, the answer is the same: it works well for me with column from util-linux 2.36. What implementation of column are you using? Commented Dec 4, 2020 at 20:44
  • @ArkadiuszDrabczyk updated Commented Dec 4, 2020 at 20:47
  • Indeed, Ubuntu uses BSD implementation bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/util-linux/+bug/1705437. It seems quite weird to me, we have util-linux implementation on Slackware. Can't you just install column from util-linux? Commented Dec 4, 2020 at 20:52
  • @ArkadiuszDrabczyk: I would prefer not to, this is going to be used on both macos and ubuntu docker containers so ultimately I would rather just remove the colors than require additional tools to be installed but I ideally I would like to get it working. Commented Dec 4, 2020 at 20:55
  • The util-linux code doesn't handle escape sequences for colors, making "works well for me" dubious. Commented Dec 4, 2020 at 21:45