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BUT the -r flag won't reverse the output not even a separate "| sort -r"

i was thinking far too deep. Many thanks!

would like to order this input based on major.minor.release AND build number


Label abc_def_0.0.3_build_999 2008/08/01 'Created by me.'
Label abc_def_0.0.9_build_1000 2008/08/01 'Created by...

ah i see it. it is mentioned a bit differently

POS is F[.C][OPTS], where F is the field number and C the character position in the field; both are
origin 1. If neither -t nor -b...

strange i'm using sort 6.9 on mandriva 2008 and this doesnt appear in the man pages:

[server~]$ sort --version
sort (GNU coreutils) 6.9
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This...

now THAT is clever!

ok so here is the real question. Essentially i'm listing labels from source control and format looks like

project_subproject_major.minor.build

example

myproject_abcdef_0.0.1...

great! so does the 1.9 mean start at position 9? what if it is variable? do we need some regex?

thanks

hey gurus,

my-build1-abc
my-build10-abc
my-build2-abc
my-build22-abc
my-build3-abc

basically i want to numerically sort the entire lines based on the build number. I dont zero pad the...