bash – awk with colored output

Coloring text in columns of output of awk.

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echo "line 1
line 2" | awk '/line/ {print "\033[32m" $1 "\033[31m" $2 }'

results in:
line1
line2

Color is given by

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"\033[32m"
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30 - black
31 - red
32 - green
33 - yellow
34 - blue
35 - magenta
36 - cyan
37 - white
0 - normal/terminal default
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# Reset
Color_Off='\033[0m'       # Text Reset

# Regular Colors
Black='\033[0;30m' # Black
Red='\033[0;31m' # Red
Green='\033[0;32m' # Green
Yellow='\033[0;33m' # Yellow
Blue='\033[0;34m' # Blue
Purple='\033[0;35m' # Purple
Cyan='\033[0;36m' # Cyan
White='\033[0;37m' # White

# Bold
BBlack='\033[1;30m' # Black
BRed='\033[1;31m' # Red
BGreen='\033[1;32m' # Green
BYellow='\033[1;33m' # Yellow
BBlue='\033[1;34m' # Blue
BPurple='\033[1;35m' # Purple
BCyan='\033[1;36m' # Cyan
BWhite='\033[1;37m' # White

# Underline
UBlack='\033[4;30m' # Black
URed='\033[4;31m' # Red
UGreen='\033[4;32m' # Green
UYellow='\033[4;33m' # Yellow
UBlue='\033[4;34m' # Blue
UPurple='\033[4;35m' # Purple
UCyan='\033[4;36m' # Cyan
UWhite='\033[4;37m' # White

# Background
On_Black='\033[40m' # Black
On_Red='\033[41m' # Red
On_Green='\033[42m' # Green
On_Yellow='\033[43m' # Yellow
On_Blue='\033[44m' # Blue
On_Purple='\033[45m' # Purple
On_Cyan='\033[46m' # Cyan
On_White='\033[47m' # White

# High Intensity
IBlack='\033[0;90m' # Black
IRed='\033[0;91m' # Red
IGreen='\033[0;92m' # Green
IYellow='\033[0;93m' # Yellow
IBlue='\033[0;94m' # Blue
IPurple='\033[0;95m' # Purple
ICyan='\033[0;96m' # Cyan
IWhite='\033[0;97m' # White

# Bold High Intensity
BIBlack='\033[1;90m' # Black
BIRed='\033[1;91m' # Red
BIGreen='\033[1;92m' # Green
BIYellow='\033[1;93m' # Yellow
BIBlue='\033[1;94m' # Blue
BIPurple='\033[1;95m' # Purple
BICyan='\033[1;96m' # Cyan
BIWhite='\033[1;97m' # White

# High Intensity backgrounds
On_IBlack='\033[0;100m' # Black
On_IRed='\033[0;101m' # Red
On_IGreen='\033[0;102m' # Green
On_IYellow='\033[0;103m' # Yellow
On_IBlue='\033[0;104m' # Blue
On_IPurple='\033[0;105m' # Purple
On_ICyan='\033[0;106m' # Cyan
On_IWhite='\033[0;107m' # White

SOURCE: StackOverflow, StackOverflow