On 2/15/14, Ray_Net <tbrraymond.schmit...@tbrscarlet.be> wrote: > Paul B. Gallagher wrote, On 15/02/2014 01:28: >> Ray_Net wrote: >>> Paul B. Gallagher wrote, On 14/02/2014 18:49: >>>> Ray_Net wrote: >>>>> Paul B. Gallagher wrote, On 14/02/2014 15:45: >>>>>> Rick Merrill wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> On 2/12/2014 1:07 PM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote: >>>>>>>> Rick Merrill wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> "Version Numbers" always annoy me when 2.24 is greater than >>>>>>>>> 2.80 !-) >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Where have you ever come across "SM 2.80"? Have you been using Dr. >>>>>>>> Emmett Brown's specially configured DeLorean? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> since when is 2.24 greater that 2.8? (evening up the digits is an >>>>>>> engineering thing) >>>>>> >>>>>> Well, now, I didn't ask about "2.8," now did I? I asked about "2.80." >>>>>> And SM 2.80 is years in the future, and might not ever happen if >>>>>> we go >>>>>> to version 3. >>>>>> >>>>>> In the SeaMonkey world, where the dot is not a decimal point, "24" >>>>>> has >>>>>> always been greater than "8." >>>>>> >>>>> But "8." is greater than "24" :-) >>>> >>>> In what universe? >>>> >>> In any alphanumeric sort. >> >> Well, if you choose to alphabetize numbers, I guess you will get weird >> results. Can't think why you'd want to, though. >> > I did not choose the way of the sort work. With "2.14.1" you CANNOT tell > the sort that this STRING is a numeric one.
you can tell sort it's a version number: --version-sort or -V $ cat sort-test echo -e "2.19 \n2.8 \n2.24 \n2.9 \n2.10 \n2.3 \n2.8.1 \n2.9.1 " |\ sort -k 1,1V $ sh sort-test 2.3 2.8 2.8.1 2.9 2.9.1 2.10 2.19 2.24 -V also does the right thing with ip addresses :) $ echo -e "10.10.10.10 \n10.9.200.9 " | sort -V -k 1 10.9.200.9 10.10.10.10 Lee _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
