Version sorting RPM Kernel string with numbers in bash returns incorrect result-CodePudding

I need the latest version out of these 4 kernel versions.

4.18.0-187.el8.x86_64
4.18.0-193.14.3.el8_2.x86_64
4.18.0-193.el8.x86_64
4.18.0-80.el8.x86_64

I had initially used numeric sort (which returns the 0-80 version incorrectly) before moving onto version sort for the same

latest_kernel_in_use=$(ls boot/vmlinuz* | sed 's/\/boot\/vmlinuz-//' | sort -V | tail -n1 )

The command still returns 4.18.0-193.el8.x86_64 versus the desired 4.18.0-193.14.3.el8_2.x86_64 output.

Help me out with the correction in the command. I tested additionally and it's really the suffixes .el8.x86_64 complicating the sorting.

[Edit] So I did it eventually, I removed the trailing alphabet/alphanumeric sequence, identifier being there is atleast one alphabet involved whether RPM kernel version is 4.18.0-193.14.3.el8_2.x86_64 or something like 4.18.0-193.14.3-generic as seen in Ubuntu

latest_kernel_in_use=$(ls boot/vmlinuz* | sed 's/boot\/vmlinuz-//' | sed 's/[.-][[:alpha:]][[:alnum:][:punct:]]*//' | sort -V | tail -n1)

The Output with this is 4.18.0-193.14.3

I can work from there.

CodePudding user response：

seems to be because "e" > 1

I came up with this horror but I am sure there is a better way

#!/bin/bash

# list your kernels and remove "vmlinuz-" prefix
KERNELS=$(find boot/ -iname "vmlinuz*" -exec basename {} \; | sed s/vmlinuz-//g)

# declare empty arrays (this will be arrays to contain our version and suffix strings)
VERSIONS_ARRAY=()
SUFFIXES_ARRAY=()

# we loop thought each kernel version
for KERNEL in $KERNELS;do
  # we will split each part of the kernel version on the dot (".")
  IFS="."
  read -ra KERNEL_VERSION <<< "$(echo $KERNEL)"
  # we define 2 empty strings to collect the kernel parts
  VERSION_STRING=""
  SUFFIX_STRING=""
  # we set back field separator to space
  IFS=" "
  # we loop throug all parts of kernel version
  for KERNEL_PART in ${KERNEL_VERSION[@]};do
    #echo -n $KERNEL_PART
    # if we encounter el8 or el8_2 or x86_64 string we append to the SUFFIX_STRING
    if [[ "$KERNEL_PART" == "el8" ]] || [[ "$KERNEL_PART" == "el8_2" ]] || [[ "$KERNEL_PART" == "x86_64" ]] ;then
      SUFFIX_STRING="${SUFFIX_STRING}${KERNEL_PART}."
    # else, we append to the VERSION_STRING
    else
      VERSION_STRING="${VERSION_STRING}${KERNEL_PART}."
    fi   
  done
  # we append the VERSION_STRING in VERSION_STRINGS
  VERSIONS_ARRAY =("$VERSION_STRING")
  # we append the SUFFIX_STRING in SUFFIXES_ARRAYS
  SUFFIXES_ARRAY =("$SUFFIX_STRING") 
done

# we set the field separator to split on linebreaks
IFS=$'\n'
# we find the highest value in version array
HIGHEST_VERSION=$(echo "${VERSIONS_ARRAY[*]}" | sort -V | tail -1)

# we get the position of highest value in array
for INDEX in ${VERSIONS_ARRAY[@]};do
    if [[ "$VERSIONS_ARRAY{[$INDEX]}" = "$HIGHEST_VERSION" ]]; then
        INDEX_OF_HIGHER_VERSION=$INDEX
    fi
done

# we get the corresponding suffix by index
HIGHEST_VERSION_SUFFIX=${SUFFIXES_ARRAY[$INDEX_OF_HIGHER_VERSION]}

# we remove the trailing dot in suffix
len=${#HIGHEST_VERSION_SUFFIX}
HIGHEST_VERSION_SUFFIX=${HIGHEST_VERSION_SUFFIX::len-1}

echo "vmlinuz-${HIGHEST_VERSION}${HIGHEST_VERSION_SUFFIX}"

# we set back field separator to space
IFS=" "

CodePudding user response：

So I did it eventually, I removed the trailing alphabet/alphanumeric sequence, identifier being there is atleast one alphabet involved whether RPM kernel version is 4.18.0-193.14.3.el8_2.x86_64 or something like 4.18.0-193.14.3-generic as seen in Ubuntu

latest_kernel_in_use=$(ls boot/vmlinuz* | sed 's/boot\/vmlinuz-//' | sed 's/[.-][[:alpha:]][[:alnum:][:punct:]]*//' | sort -V | tail -n1)

The Output with this is 4.18.0-193.14.3

I can work from here.