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Re: Possible bug in sort -V


From: Pádraig Brady
Subject: Re: Possible bug in sort -V
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:53:56 +0000
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On 16/12/09 01:18, john blair wrote:
cat a | /build/toolchain/lin32/coreutils-8.2/bin/sort -V
kernel-2.6.18-164.2.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-2.6.18-164.6.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-2.6.18-164.el5.x86_64.rpm

The result should be
kernel-2.6.18-164.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-2.6.18-164.2.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-2.6.18-164.6.1.el5.x86_64.rpm

Is it a bug is sort -V?

The attached patch at least tries to explain this weirdness
(and also fixes up some out of date info about sort -V).

cheers,
Pádraig.

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