Hi, I'm currently using version-sort in order to get integers sorted in strings (due to the lack of simple numeric sort like in zsh), but I've noticed some ugliness. This may be bugs, not I'm not sure since the description of the sorting method in the Coreutils manual takes several pages with all its exceptions, and I expect no-one will try to understand.
Here are some examples with coreutils 8.32-4+b1 under Debian/unstable with the following locales: $ locale LANG=POSIX LANGUAGE= LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC="POSIX" LC_TIME=en_DK.utf8 LC_COLLATE=POSIX LC_MONETARY="POSIX" LC_MESSAGES="POSIX" LC_PAPER="POSIX" LC_NAME="POSIX" LC_ADDRESS="POSIX" LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX" LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX" LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX" LC_ALL= in case this matters for version-sort. $ printf "%s\n" a.b.1 a.c a.c.0 ab.1 ac ac.0 | sort -V a.c ab.1 ac ac.0 a.b.1 a.c.0 Here, one has "a.c" before "a.b.1", which is very surprising. It is also surprising to have all these strings between "a.c" and "a.c.0", which I would expect to be consecutive here. $ printf "%s\n" a.aux a.fdb_latexmk a.fls a.log | sort -V a.aux a.fls a.log a.fdb_latexmk Here, I would expect "a.fdb_latexmk" to be between "a.aux" and "a.fls". Less important: $ printf "%s\n" foo1 foo1.txt foo1b foo1b.txt "foo1 bar" | sort -V foo1 foo1.txt foo1b foo1b.txt foo1 bar I think that having "foo1 bar" after something like "foo1b" is rather unusual, because "foo1 bar" makes me think that the word "foo1" is before "foo1b". This happens to work with lexicographic sort because the space is the first printable character, but this is a nice feature. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
