why would "a" come before null or period in a version sort? $ sort -V<<eoi > 9.9 > 9a.9 > eoi 9a.9 9.9 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20151213/1c751140/attachment.html>