How to compare two strings in dot separated version format in Bash?

Question

Is there any way to compare such strings on bash, e.g.: 2.4.5 and 2.8 and 2.4.5.1?

Answer 1

For old version/busybox sort. Simple form provide roughly result and often works.

sort -n

This is escpecial useful on version which contains alpha symbols like

10.c.3
10.a.4
2.b.5