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Old 01-30-2007
sorting in awk

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
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Old 01-30-2007
pipe it to |sort -n
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Old 01-31-2007
Code:
sort -t"~" -kn1 -kn5 file

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Old 01-31-2007
sort -nt "~" -k1,k5 file
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