How to compare two strings in dot separated version format in Bash?

Question

Is there any way to compare such strings on bash, e.g.: 2.4.5 and 2.8 and 2.4.5.1?

Answer 1

GNU sort has an option for it:

printf '2.4.5\n2.8\n2.4.5.1\n' | sort -V

gives:

2.4.5
2.4.5.1
2.8