What's the best way to compare dotted version strings from a script?

2011-08-31 Thread David Howells 

Is there a program or script installed/installable by Fedora that can be used
to compare dotted version strings (eg. 1.5.2) from a shell script?

David
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Re: What's the best way to compare dotted version strings from a script?

2011-08-31 Thread Dan Horák 
David Howells píše v St 31. 08. 2011 v 18:20 +0100: 
 Is there a program or script installed/installable by Fedora that can be used
 to compare dotted version strings (eg. 1.5.2) from a shell script?

rpmdev-vercmp could do the work


Dan


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Re: What's the best way to compare dotted version strings from a script?

2011-08-31 Thread Richard W.M. Jones 
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 06:20:35PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
 Is there a program or script installed/installable by Fedora that can be used
 to compare dotted version strings (eg. 1.5.2) from a shell script?

For non-RPM version strings, try 'sort -V'.

Rich.

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