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coreutils: Differences from the official Debian Algorithm

 
 30.3 Differences from the official Debian Algorithm
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 The GNU coreutils’ version sort algorithm differs slightly from the
 official Debian algorithm, in order to accommodate more general usage
 and file name listing.
 

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· Minus/Hyphen and Colon characters
· Additional hard-coded priorities in GNU coreutils' version sort
· Special handling of file extensions
 

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