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date: 27 October 2022
section: 8
title: RPMSORT
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NAME
====

rpmsort - Sort input by RPM Package Manager (RPM) versioning

SYNOPSIS
========

**rpmsort** *FILES*

DESCRIPTION
===========

**rpmsort**(8) sorts the input files, and writes a sorted list to standard
out - like **sort**(1), but aware of RPM versioning.

If \'-\' is given as an argument, or no arguments are given, versions are read
from standard in and written to standard out.

EXAMPLES
========

\
***$ echo -e \'rpm-4.18.0-3.fc38.x86_64\\nrpm-4.18.0-1.fc38.x86_64\' | rpmsort \
rpm-4.18.0-1.fc38.x86_64 \
rpm-4.18.0-3.fc38.x86_64***

AUTHORS
=======

    Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
	Robbie Harwood <rharwood@redhat.com>