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February 05, 2017 —
BarryK
I have a need to sort version numbers in the Easy Linux initramfs. The 'sort' utility in Coreutils has the "-V" option, however my initramfs only has busybox sort, which does not have that option.
I recall some years ago, trying to figure out a script to do it. Now that the need has come up again, I did a search with google, and found this:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4493205/unix-sort-of-version-numbers
...yes, a simple one-liner, works great.
A note on progress with Easy Linux, the next-gen Quirky. Coming along very nicely, and lots of fun. When will there be a release? ...not sure, want to get it pretty rock-solid first, even though it will be an alpha or pre-alpha. Probably early-March.