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coreutils: Implementation Details

 
 30.2 Implementation Details
 ===========================
 
 GNU coreutils’ version sort algorithm is based on Debian’s versioning
 scheme
 (https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#version),
 specifically on the "upstream version" part.
 
    This section describes the ordering rules.
 
 Algorithm::) describes some differences between GNU coreutils
 implementation and Debian’s official algorithm.

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· Version-sort ordering rules
· Version sort is not the same as numeric sort
· Punctuation Characters
· Punctuation Characters vs letters
· Tilde ~ character
· Version sort ignores locale
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