Re: apt show escape characters

[Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org>]

On Fri, Nov 07, 2025 at 08:37:31 -0600, Mike McClain wrote:
> Since installing trixie apt show ... is displaying 'ESC[1m', 'ESC[0m'
> and the like. What might be the difference in my bookworm install to
> the new trixie install that would cause that?

You've probably got the LESS variable set in your environment.  I do
too.  I get that too.

If I run

    (unset LESS; apt show bash)

or

    env -u LESS apt show bash

then the raw control characters are passed through directly to the
terminal as intended.