bug#22455: sort-V not sorting correctly when minor version decimal places differ

tag 22455 notabug close 22455 thanks Hello, > On Jan 24, 2016, at 07:54, Vashti wrote: > [...] > I understand that sort -V is not reliable in all cases, but this seems like > quite a straightforward one. "sort -V" is reliable (or at least - consistent and well defined in

bug#22455: sort-V not sorting correctly when minor version decimal places differ

Hi, I'm having an issue with a script using coreutils 8.25. Asked to sort two version numbers, 8.49 and 8.5, it returns them in the wrong order, with the lowest value second: $ echo -e '8.49\n8.5' | sort -V 8.5 8.49 I can produce the expected behaviour by correcting the second version number to

bug#22455: sort-V not sorting correctly when minor version decimal places differ

Vashti writes: > Hi, I'm having an issue with a script using coreutils 8.25. Asked to sort > two version numbers, 8.49 and 8.5, it returns them in the wrong order, with > the lowest value second: > > $ echo -e '8.49\n8.5' | sort -V > 8.5 > 8.49 5 < 49, so that looks