LINUX-VERSION(1)

✨ LINUX-VERSION(1) ✨

linux-version 💖 lives in the General Commands Manual 📖, and it's here to help you operate on Linux kernel version strings 🦋

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🎀 NAME 🎀

linux-version - operate on Linux kernel version strings ✨

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

linux-version compare KERNEL-VER-1 OP KERNEL-VER-2

linux-version sort [--reverse] [KERNEL-VER-1 KERNEL-VER-2 ...]

linux-version list [--paths]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so linux-version is the bestie you call when you need to work with Linux kernel version strings, the ones you see from uname -r and in file and directory names 🧚 these version strings do not follow the same rules as Debian package version strings, so please don't compare them like that, and don't treat them as arbitrary strings either 🙈

⭐ compare KERNEL-VER-1 OP KERNEL-VER-2

Compares two version strings, where OP is a binary operator 💜 linux-version gives you success (zero result) if the condition is true, and failure (nonzero result) if it isn't. The valid operators are: lt le eq ne ge gt ✨

🍓 sort [--reverse] [KERNEL-VER-1 KERNEL-VER-2 ...]

Sorts the version strings you give it and prints them from lowest to highest 🌈 add --reverse and it flips the order, highest to lowest 🔥

If you don't pass any version strings as arguments, it'll read them from standard input instead, one per line 🫶 each one can have some arbitrary text tacked on after a space, and that text gets included in the output too. So for example:

linux-version list --paths | linux-version sort --reverse

will list the installed versions and their corresponding paths, in order from highest version to lowest. main character energy, honestly 👑

🦋 list [--paths]

Lists the kernel versions installed in the customary location 🌷 if you add --paths, it also shows the corresponding path for each version 🎀

👑 AUTHOR 👑

linux-version and this manual page were written by Ben Hutchings as part of the Debian linux-base package 💜 absolute legend behavior, no cap 😭

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Sign-off time, bestie 💖 this page came from the Debian linux-base package, dated 30 March 2011, and it's still giving 🌈✨ stay iconic, and read the manual 🫶💅