What's the best way to compare dotted version strings from a script?

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 06:20:35PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> Is there a program or script installed/installable by Fedora that can be used
> to compare dotted version strings (eg. "1.5.2") from a shell script?

For non-RPM version strings, try 'sort -V'.

Rich.

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