sorting in awk

mahabunta · January 30, 2007, 2:11pm

i have following file have following type of data

1~%%~fcashfafh~%%~9797

can i sort(numeric) the file on first field and then on last feild using awk

Bashar · January 30, 2007, 4:30pm

pipe it to |sort -n

anbu23 · January 31, 2007, 12:50am

sort -t"~" -kn1 -kn5 file

Krrishv · January 31, 2007, 12:56am

sort -nt "~" -k1,k5 file