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Re: apt show escape characters

On Fri, 7 Nov 2025, Greg Wooledge wrote:


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.



Or maybe add -R?

I have it set to -RX.

Tim.
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