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RE: dot five-o series versions - GDB 6.2.50
- From: <jyates at netezza dot com>
- To: <schwab at suse dot de>
- Cc: <gdb at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 09:49:04 -0400
- Subject: RE: dot five-o series versions - GDB 6.2.50
Wow! Learn something new everyday!
Neither ls --help nor man ls provide a much of a clue
as to what a version sort is. Listed among items with
more obvious sorting semantics I simply ignored -v.
info ls provided the full story. ls -v definitely
addresses my objection.
/john
-----Original Message-----
From: Andreas Schwab [mailto:schwab@suse.de]
Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 6:09 AM
To: John Yates
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: dot five-o series versions - GDB 6.2.50
<jyates@netezza.com> writes:
> That would be fine if commonplace sorts obeyed that logic.
> The most common sort in my world is /bin/ls which fails to
> conform.
GNU ls: --sort=version (aka -v)
Andreas.
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