coreutils: Other version/natural sort implementations
30.4.3 Other version/natural sort implementations
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As previously mentioned, there are multiple variations on
version/natural sort, each with its own rules. Some examples are:
• Natural Sorting variants in Rosetta Code
(https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Natural_sorting).
• Python’s natsort package (https://pypi.org/project/natsort/)
(includes detailed description of their sorting rules: natsort -
how it works
(https://natsort.readthedocs.io/en/master/howitworks.html)).
• Ruby’s version_sorter (https://github.com/github/version_sorter).
• Perl has multiple packages for natual and version sorts (each
likely with its own rules and nuances): Sort::Naturally
(https://metacpan.org/pod/Sort::Naturally), Sort::Versions
(https://metacpan.org/pod/Sort::Versions), CPAN::Version
(https://metacpan.org/pod/CPAN::Version).
• PHP has a built-in function natsort
(https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.natsort.php).
• NodeJS’s natural-sort package
(https://www.npmjs.com/package/natural-sort).
• In zsh, the glob modifier
(http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Doc/Release/Expansion.html#Glob-Qualifiers)
‘*(n)’ will expand to files in natural sort order.
• When writing ‘C’ programs, the GNU libc library (‘glibc’) provides
the strvercmp(3)
(http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/strverscmp.3.html) function
to compare two strings, and versionsort(3)
(http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/versionsort.3.html) function
to compare two directory entries (despite the names, they are not
identical to GNU coreutils’ version sort ordering).
• Using Debian’s sorting algorithm in:
• python: Stack Overflow Example #4957741
(https://stackoverflow.com/a/4957741).
• NodeJS: deb-version-compare
(https://www.npmjs.com/package/deb-version-compare).
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