I have a requirement where I need to check if

where r1v07l09ab is a software release.

I should always check for this to be true to continue the release deployment because an older release should not be deployed by mistake. I mean only the release greater than the current release should be deployed on the server.

please help.

Thanks in advance.

Thanks,

awk 'BEGIN{ 
    if ("r1v07l09ab" < "r1v07l09ac" ) print "yup"
    else print "nope"
}'

rakeshou, would release "r2v12" be lower or higher than "r12v2"?

this way I can pass SHELL Variables $prevRelease and $curRelease and also return the result back to SHELL

prevRelease=r1v07l09ab
currRelease=r1v07l09ac
VALID=`echo "$prevRelease $currRelease" | awk '{ if($1 < $2) print "1"; else print "0" }'`