Can the columns of long listing (-l) be made fixed-width even when STDOUT is not a tty?

[clharrison]

Sorry if I've overlooked anything prior to posting. I'm writing a Perl tool that fires off an eza -l command via qx() and reads the output into a variable - therefore, eza knows its STDOUT is not to a tty. I use --color=always and --classify=always to force those features, but I lose the fixed-width columns I would get if running eza -l from the terminal. I assume that's because STDOUT is not a tty, but there seems to be no way to override fixed columns the way I can force coloring and classification.

Have I missed an option?

Update
I noticed that using eza's --header option forces fixed-width columns with piped output, except that I don't want headers to be printed. Perhaps #766 will give me what I want?

[Omnikron13]

I believe eza --header --color=always --classify=always | tail -n +2 would work around the issue, at least.