Differences from the official Debian Algorithm (GNU Coreutils 9.0)
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30.3 Differences from the official Debian Algorithm
The GNU coreutils’ version sort algorithm differs slightly from the official Debian algorithm, in order to accommodate more general usage and file name listing.
| • Minus/Hyphen ‘-’ and Colon ‘:’ characters | ||
| • Additional hard-coded priorities in GNU coreutils’ version sort | ||
| • Special handling of file extensions |
