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30.2 Version sort implementation

GNU Coreutils version sort is based on the “upstream version” part of Debian’s versioning scheme.

This section describes the GNU Coreutils sort ordering rules.

The next section (Differences from Debian version sort) describes some differences between GNU Coreutils and Debian version sort.

• Version-sort ordering rules
• Version sort is not the same as numeric sort
• Version sort punctuation
• Punctuation vs letters
• The tilde ‘~’
• Version sort ignores locale