RPMSORT(1)

💖 RPMSORT(1) 💖

okay bestie, so this is rpmsort(1) from the General Commands Manual, and honestly? it's giving "sort(1) but it actually gets RPM versions" and I'm obsessed 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

rpmsort — sort input by RPM Package Manager (RPM) versioning 👑

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

rpmsort [ FILE ... ]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so like, rpmsort(1) takes the content of whatever input files you give it, sorts that content, and writes a sorted list out to standard out. think of it as sort(1), except it's aware of RPM versioning — so it doesn't do the chaotic thing where rpm-4.18.0-3 comes before rpm-4.18.0-1 and ruins your whole day 💅

🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

• FILE — a text-file full of lines that you want sorted. and if you omit FILE, or you literally just pass - instead, then the data gets read from standard in and written to standard out. main character energy, she's flexible ✨

💅 OPTIONS 💅

rpmsort has no options. none. zero. she said "I'm simple, I'm flawless, I don't need flags" 😌✨ literally iconic behaviour, no cap.

💀 EXIT STATUS 💀

on success, 0 is returned. otherwise you get a nonzero failure code. so if it's not 0, something went sideways bestie, no need to investigate further than that 🙈

🔥 EXAMPLES 🔥

okay watch this, actual magic:

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

see how -1 came out on top and -3 went below? yes ma'am. that's the whole point. sort(1) could NEVER 😭🫶

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• rpm-version(7) — go read it, iykyk 📖✨

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! this was RPMSORT(1) from the General Commands Manual, and the footer says it's RPM 6.1.0 dated 2026-08-20 — so like, yeah, that's your version and your date, mwah 💋 now go sort something with RPM awareness, periodt 💖🎀🦋