Re: how to get rid of escape sequences

[David Wright]

On Thu 24 Sep 2026 at 01:00:36 (+0000), fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote:
> i upgraded from bookworm to trixie
> ran apt upgrade followed by apt dist-upgrade
> now i see escape sequences is some applications
> 
> $ apt show coreutils
> ESC[1mPackage: ESC[0mESC[32mcoreutilsESC[0m
> ESC[1mVersion:ESC[0m 9.7-3
> ESC[1mPriority:ESC[0m required
> ESC[1mEssential:ESC[0m yes
> ESC[1mSection:ESC[0m utils
> 
> i get this when i ssh to the machine or use the local tty
> any ideas what i missed

Apt now has it's own environment variable for paging, which I set:

  APT_PAGER='less -Riqs'

Cheers,
David.