On Mon, Aug 07, 2017 at 08:05:28AM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Could this somehow be coming from bash rather than apt?
Nope. Also while I'm here: the garish colors of apt(8) are not the #1 reason I switched back to apt-get(8), but they are #2. Whoever chose the colors clearly doesn't use a terminal with a white background, because yellow on white is simply unreadable.