rpmsort - Man Page

Sort input by RPM Package Manager (RPM) versioning

Synopsis

rpmsort [ FILE ... ]

Description

rpmsort(1) sorts the input files, and writes a sorted list to standard out - like sort(1), but aware of RPM versioning.

Arguments

FILE

A text-file containing lines to sort. If FILE is omitted or - given, data is read from standard in and written to standard out.

Options

rpmsort has no options.

Exit Status

On success, 0 is returned, a non-zero failure code otherwise.

Examples

echo -e 'rpm-4.18.0-3.fc38.x86_64\nrpm-4.18.0-1.fc38.x86_64' | rpmsort

  rpm-4.18.0-1.fc38.x86_64
  rpm-4.18.0-3.fc38.x86_64

Referenced By

rpmsort(1).

2025-04-17