RPMSORT(1) General Commands Manual RPMSORT(1)

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

rpmsort [ FILE ... ]

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

FILE

A text-file containing lines to sort. If FILE is omitted or - given, data is read from standard in and written to standard out.

rpmsort has no options.

On success, 0 is returned, a nonzero failure code otherwise.

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

rpm-version(7)

2026-01-08 RPM 6.0.1