Gnu/coreutils/Implementation-Details

GNU coreutils’ version sort algorithm is based on Debian’s versioning scheme, specifically on the "upstream version" part.

This section describes the ordering rules.

The next section (Differences from the official Debian Algorithm) describes some differences between GNU coreutils implementation and Debian’s official algorithm.

• Version-sort ordering rules
• Version sort is not the same as numeric sort
• Punctuation Characters
• Punctuation Characters vs letters
• Tilde ‘`~`’ character
• Version sort uses ASCII order, ignores locale, unicode characters