{"id":1070,"date":"2012-05-22T09:49:55","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T09:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/?p=1070"},"modified":"2012-05-22T09:50:12","modified_gmt":"2012-05-22T09:50:12","slug":"compair-version-numbers-in-bash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/?p=1070","title":{"rendered":"Compair Version Numbers in Bash"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"codecolorer-container text default\" style=\"overflow:auto;white-space:nowrap;\"><div class=\"text codecolorer\">[david@Galileo ~]# function version { echo &quot;$@&quot; | awk -F. '{ printf(&quot;%d%03d%03d%03d\\n&quot;, $1,$2,$3,$4); }'; }<br \/>\n[david@Galileo ~]# ver1=10.1.2.9<br \/>\n[david@Galileo ~]# ver2=10.01.02.008<br \/>\n[david@Galileo ~]# if [ $(version $ver1) -gt $(version $ver2) ]; then echo &quot;$ver1 is newer $ver2&quot;; else echo &quot;$ver1 is NOT newer $ver2&quot;; fi<br \/>\n10.1.2.9 is newer 10.01.02.008<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[david@Galileo ~]# function version { echo &quot;$@&quot; | awk -F. &#8216;{ printf(&quot;%d%03d%03d%03d\\n&quot;, $1,$2,$3,$4); }&#8217;; } [david@Galileo ~]# ver1=10.1.2.9 [david@Galileo ~]# ver2=10.01.02.008 [david@Galileo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-info-on-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}