From: Daniel Shahaf <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name>
To: TJ Luoma <luomat@gmail.com>
Cc: Zsh-Users List <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Version String Comparison
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 03:58:13 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151120035813.GE3955@tarsus.local2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9A09EF7C-A81B-4ED9-A266-C6A53BC98167@gmail.com>
TJ Luoma wrote on Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 17:16:08 -0500:
>
> I am looking for a zsh way to compare version numbers, which is
> smart enough to know that, for example
>
> "6.7.0.36" is less than "6.7.0.0044"
If I didn't care about portability to other operating systems, I'd
probably just use the package manager's version comparator: 'dpkg
--compare-versions', 'pkg version --test-version', or local equivalent.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-20 3:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-19 22:16 TJ Luoma
2015-11-20 3:58 ` Daniel Shahaf [this message]
2015-11-20 5:17 ` Matthew Martin
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