Earlier today, I was listing the releases in a GitHub repo:
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| $ gh release list --limit 10 | awk -F ' ' '{print $2}'
8.12.2
8.12.1
7.17.18
7.17.17
8.12.0
8.11.4
8.11.3
7.17.16
8.11.2
7.17.15
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The GitHub CLI returns the release in chronologica order, which makes perfercly sense for releases.
However, I needed them version order, so I tried my old friend sort:
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| $ gh release list --limit 25 | awk -F ' ' '{print $2}' | sort -r
8.9.2
8.9.1
8.9.0
8.8.2
8.12.2
8.12.1
8.12.0
8.11.4
8.11.3
8.11.2
8.11.1
8.11.0
8.10.4
8.10.3
8.10.2
8.10.1
8.10.0
7.17.18
7.17.17
7.17.16
7.17.15
7.17.14
7.17.13
7.17.12
7.17.11
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sort sorts the values using the natural orders, but it doesn’t work for version numbers.
But, TIL, why sort is our friend: “There’s a switch for that”!
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| $ gh release list --limit 25 | awk -F ' ' '{print $2}' | sort -r -V
8.12.2
8.12.1
8.12.0
8.11.4
8.11.3
8.11.2
8.11.1
8.11.0
8.10.4
8.10.3
8.10.2
8.10.1
8.10.0
8.9.2
8.9.1
8.9.0
8.8.2
7.17.18
7.17.17
7.17.16
7.17.15
7.17.14
7.17.13
7.17.12
7.17.11
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Using the -V option, sort sorts values as version numbers.