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bug#22455: sort-V not sorting correctly when minor version decimal place
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Andreas Schwab |
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bug#22455: sort-V not sorting correctly when minor version decimal places differ |
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Date: |
Sun, 24 Jan 2016 15:01:31 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) |
Vashti <address@hidden> writes:
> Hi, I'm having an issue with a script using coreutils 8.25. Asked to sort
> two version numbers, 8.49 and 8.5, it returns them in the wrong order, with
> the lowest value second:
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> $ echo -e '8.49\n8.5' | sort -V
> 8.5
> 8.49
5 < 49, so that looks correct.
Andreas.
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