column command returns badly aligned columns

[GwibberFooey]

I have recently loaded the latest Ubuntu software, which is version 21.04. And now I have problems with the column command in terminal. When I do the following command, then the columns, which should be nicely aligned, are instead severely scrambled. In fact, it is only the rows containing the directory names that are giving problems.

$ pass | column

On the other hand, when I do the following command, then the columns appear to be aligned as they should be.

$ tree ~/.password-store | column

Until very recently I had Ubuntu Mate 18.04, and on that operating system there was no problem with scrambled columns. Likewise, when I run the command

pass | column

on the Raspberry Pi with Raspbian, there is no problem of scrambled columns.

How to resolve it?

[TheFu]

column -t?

There is a manpage for column with many other options.

[GwibberFooey]

Here are four examples of the output I am getting for various commands. The first three are on Ubuntu 21.04, the last one is on a Raspberry Pi; the last one is equivalent to how

pass | column

behaved on Ubuntu 18.04. If I can figure out how to get Ubuntu 21.04 to behave like the last example, then I will mark this thread as solved.

keW3P@aL9doo:~$ pass | column -t
Password  Store                
├──       pheeph3Y             
│         ├──                  kshdkfhal         
│         ├──                  gjye              
│         ├──                  Eeghoozoongo1vahde
...
│         ├──                  fht7c5
├──       feofohCoi7phij           
│         ├──                  audaiJiu8ienge
│         ├──                  Ahpai9ieludae9

keW3P@aL9doo:~$ pass 
Password Store
├── pheeph3Y
│   ├── kshdkfhal         
│   ├── gjye              
│   ├── Eeghoozoongo1vahde
...
│   ├── fht7c5
├── feofohCoi7phij
│   ├── audaiJiu8ienge
│   ├── Ahpai9ieludae9

keW3P@aL9doo:~$ pass | column
Password Store                │   ├── woh8ailig6UWoh1eequi        │   ├── ahdkfha                │   ├── hadfhvba
├── pheeph3Y            │   └── le5Oi8c                │   ├── jlfdsf                │   ├── hfdkage
│   ├── kshdkfhal            ├── jafldja            │   ├── jdfhdahfkdakfhak        │   ├── dkafjdaljfajds
│   ├── gjye                │   ├── Ufagei2wi            ├── xe2eif6ohTh        │   ├── fht7c5
│   ├── Eeghoozoongo1vahde        │   ├── r4f                │   ├── ii4Aipo7k            ├── feofohCoi7phij
│   ├── fj5usM                ├── Ang3doye            │   ├── ji5Na7pa            │   ├── audaiJiu8iengeuwoyooLa
│   ├── zoekoch6oSh            │   ├── Ucoe5xahcah            │   ├── fhV3F7                │   ├── Ahpai9ieludae9

pi@raspberrypi:~$ pass | column
Password Store                │   ├── woh8ailig6UWoh1eequi        │   ├── ahdkfha                │   ├── hadfhvba
├── pheeph3Y                  │   └── le5Oi8c                     │   ├── jlfdsf                 │   ├── hfdkage
│   ├── kshdkfhal             ├── jafldja                         │   ├── jdfhdahfkdakfhak       │   ├── dkafjdaljfajds
│   ├── gjye                  │   ├── Ufagei2wi                   ├── xe2eif6ohTh                │   ├── fht7c5
│   ├── Eeghoozoongo1vahde    │   ├── r4f                         │   ├── ii4Aipo7k              ├── feofohCoi7phij
│   ├── fj5usM                ├── Ang3doye                        │   ├── ji5Na7pa               │   ├── audaiJiu8iengeuwoyooLa
│   ├── zoekoch6oSh           │   ├── Ucoe5xahcah                 │   ├── fhV3F7                 │   ├── Ahpai9ieludae9