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Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 03:58:13 +0000
From: Daniel Shahaf <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name>
To: TJ Luoma <luomat@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Version String Comparison
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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.