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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index 04db67663..9c8b8c3a6 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -6667,7 +6667,7 @@ foo.zml-6.gz foo.zml-100.gz
Version-sorted strings are compared such that if @var{ver1} and @var{ver2}
are version numbers and @var{prefix} and @var{suffix} (@var{suffix} matching
-the regular expression @samp{(\.[A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9]*)*}) are strings then
+the regular expression @samp{(\.[A-Za-z~][A-Za-z0-9~]*)*}) are strings then
@var{ver1} < @var{ver2} implies that the name composed of
``@var{prefix} @var{ver1} @var{suffix}'' sorts before
``@var{prefix} @var{ver2} @var{suffix}''.