Help in sorting multiple columns

Hello all,

I am using printf to print the sorted o/p in my script.I am trying to sort in following way but doesn't work.

printf "%13s %2s  UDP %15s:%s Program %4s HD: %23s HD: %23s %10s %s %s %3s days %3s hours\n" $encoder $i "${ipaddr[$i]}" ${portno[$i]} ${progno[$i]} ${inres[$i]} ${outres[$i]} ${inrate} ${enable} ${run[$i]} ${edate1[$i]} ${etime1[$i]} |  sort -k 13,13n -k 14,14n -k 15,15n -k 16,16n -k 17,17n 

I am trying to sort 13,14,15,16 and 17th column of the o/p sorted.

Is this the right method or something else can be done?

Thank you.

You kidding us? Why in the world don't you just try it out?
That's what I do not understand.

After you try it out for yourself, as zaxxon suggests, if it doesn't work as expected, at the very least provide the input data, the output your code generated, and the output you expected.

Regards,
Alister

hey guys i did try it out and it didn't work that's why i posted,let me make my question more clear.

I execute the following code

for i in {1..12};do  printf "%s %s\n" "${edate1[$i]}" "${etime1[$i]}"

(I retrieve the values of edate1 and etime1 from my database and store it in an array which works fine.)

I receive the o/p as:

97 16
97 16
97 12
107 16
97 16
97 16
97 16
97 16
97 16
97 16
97 16
100 15

I want to sort both these columns using the sort command.Please help me out.

Thanks.

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Expected O/P:

107 16
100 15
97 16
97 16
97 16
97 16
97 16
97 16
97 16
97 16
97 16
97 12

$sort -rn -k1.1 -k2.2 infile
107 16
100 15
97 16
97 16
97 16
97 16
97 16
97 16
97 16
97 16
97 16
97 12