On Fri, Nov 07, 2025 at 10:10:57AM -0500, 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.
I've had 'export LESS=-aCMsi' in the environment for several versions of Debian. I currently have both bookworm and trixie installs both with the same environment settings, atleast that I set. The bookworm install doesn't show those escapes as text yet in trixie 'apt show ...' does. Suggestions where I might look to see what's causing this and correct it? Thanks, Mike -- Enjoy yourself. It is later than you think.
