Is there any way to compare such strings on bash, e.g.: 2.4.5
and 2.8
and 2.4.5.1
?
Here is another pure bash solution without any external calls:
#!/bin/bash
function version_compare {
IFS='.' read -ra ver1 <<< "$1"
IFS='.' read -ra ver2 <<< "$2"
[[ ${#ver1[@]} -gt ${#ver2[@]} ]] && till=${#ver1[@]} || till=${#ver2[@]}
for ((i=0; i<${till}; i++)); do
local num1; local num2;
[[ -z ${ver1[i]} ]] && num1=0 || num1=${ver1[i]}
[[ -z ${ver2[i]} ]] && num2=0 || num2=${ver2[i]}
if [[ $num1 -gt $num2 ]]; then
echo ">"; return 0
elif
[[ $num1 -lt $num2 ]]; then
echo "<"; return 0
fi
done
echo "="; return 0
}
echo "${1} $(version_compare "${1}" "${2}") ${2}"
And there is even more simple solution, if you are sure that the versions in question do not contain leading zeros after the first dot:
#!/bin/bash
function version_compare {
local ver1=${1//.}
local ver2=${2//.}
if [[ $ver1 -gt $ver2 ]]; then
echo ">"; return 0
elif
[[ $ver1 -lt $ver2 ]]; then
echo "<"; return 0
fi
echo "="; return 0
}
echo "${1} $(version_compare "${1}" "${2}") ${2}"
This will work for something like 1.2.3 vs 1.3.1 vs 0.9.7, but won't work with 1.2.3 vs 1.2.3.0 or 1.01.1 vs 1.1.1