On Fri, 8 Jul 2016, Andrew Schulman wrote: > What's the best (simplest, most efficient, or however) way to compare two > version strings in fish? Any better way than writing a custom function? > > For example, I want to test if the current running version of fish is less > than > 2.3.1. I want to compare $FISH_VERSION to 2.3.1, using the version component > ordering. > > I looked around for builtins or standard commands for this and I didn't find > any.
FWIW, I've always used the Debian tooling for this: dpkg --compare-versions $FISH_VERSION gt 2.2.b1; and echo Hooray! Not particularly portable, though. David Adam [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Attend Shape: An AT&T Tech Expo July 15-16. Meet us at AT&T Park in San Francisco, CA to explore cutting-edge tech and listen to tech luminaries present their vision of the future. This family event has something for everyone, including kids. Get more information and register today. http://sdm.link/attshape _______________________________________________ Fish-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users
