Thanks for the replies. Kamil, you are right. It works if I remove x86_64.rpm from the string.
--- On Wed, 12/16/09, Kamil Dudka <kdu...@redhat.com> wrote: > From: Kamil Dudka <kdu...@redhat.com> > Subject: Re: Possible bug in sort -V > To: "john blair" <mailtome200420032...@yahoo.com> > Cc: bug-coreutils@gnu.org > Date: Wednesday, December 16, 2009, 6:02 PM > On Wed December 16 2009 02:18:58 john > blair wrote: > > cat a | /build/toolchain/lin32/coreutils-8.2/bin/sort > -V > > kernel-2.6.18-164.2.1.el5.x86_64.rpm > > kernel-2.6.18-164.6.1.el5.x86_64.rpm > > kernel-2.6.18-164.el5.x86_64.rpm > > > > The result should be > > kernel-2.6.18-164.el5.x86_64.rpm > > kernel-2.6.18-164.2.1.el5.x86_64.rpm > > kernel-2.6.18-164.6.1.el5.x86_64.rpm > > > > Is it a bug is sort -V? > > I agree the behavior is pretty awkward. Nevertheless the > behavior > is well documented: > > http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/Details-about-version-sort.html > > The "bug" is triggered by the underscore in "x86_64". It's > not treated as file > suffix in that case. However it works fairly well when you > replace "x86_64" by > "i686". > > Kamil > > >
