escape sequence in command line prompt

[aquerubin]

While troubleshooting a problem with rancid running multiple commands on
a VyOS system I noticed that VyOS prefixes the command line prompt with
what appears to be an escape sequence: 1b 5d 30 3b

Anybody know what the purpose of the escape sequence is? It is not sent
during configuration mode and was confusing vlogin’s detection of the
command line prompt.

[carl.byington]

@aquerubin

Anybody know what the purpose of the escape sequence is? It is not sent
during configuration mode and was confusing vlogin’s detection of the
command line prompt.

Those are vt100/ansi terminal escape sequences. See if you can pass an empty string for the TERM environment variable.

TERM="" ssh vyos@your.router