I'm working on a commandline that retrieve some data (curl), extract the relevant fields (awk) and format it (column). It work nice, although it's very ugly (but all my script begin from a too long and ugly one-liner) but when I try to have some colour column goes wrong.This is the plain (reduced) version that work:curl http://webservices.rm.ingv.it/fdsnws/event/1/query?lat=42.35&lon=13.4&maxradius=5.0&starttime=2016-01-01T00:00:00&endtime=2016-12-31T23:59:59&minmag=5&format=text&orderby=time-asc 2>/dev/null  \ | awk 'BEGIN { FS= |; OFS= | }  {print  $1, $2, $5, $10, $11, $13}' \ | column -t -s '|'Now, I want to underline some fields, and then add some ANSI escape code in awk:curl http://webservices.rm.ingv.it/fdsnws/event/1/query?lat=42.35&lon=13.4&maxradius=5.0&starttime=2016-01-01T00:00:00&endtime=2016-12-31T23:59:59&minmag=5&format=text&orderby=time-asc 2>/dev/null  \ | awk 'BEGIN { FS= | ; OFS= | }  \     $13~/Rieti/||/Perugia/ {$13=\033[1;31m$13\033[0m} \     $11~/[0-9]+/ && $11 > 5.8 {$11=\033[1;33m$11\033[0m}      {print  $1, $2, $5, $10, $11, $13 }' \ | column -t -s '|'Now, the alignment is wrong (see the picture).Why? And how can I fix it?  UPDATEI already saw the question Issue with column command and color escape codes  but does not solve my problem because his answers are applied and work in the case of a fully colored line.  In my case I can't apply or adapt the answers (or I'm not able to) because:The problem is circumscribed to the case where the column $11 is colored, regardless of the subsequent column.I can't see a good or elegant way to add color code after column.If I send column's output to awk for the test I don't know how to instruct awk to separate the fields correctly (if the fields were separated by more space I could use a regex but in some cases the separation is by a single space, and awk would not know how to recognize spaces between words and spaces as Fields Separators).The only thing I can see is that if I move the reset color code from the assignment to the print block the first row was better spaced, like the plain output version (see below, the \033[0m underlined in second commandline): Then, how can we fix it? There is another way, more elegant, to colorize as I did?(I know, I can do it better with some lines of perl, but I'm curious about this problem) 
Why the output of column is misaligned with a ANSI colored input?
text processing;awk;colors;columns;text formatting