Sorting using two field separators

[tolugboji]

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On Sunday, October 17th, 2021 at 11:42 PM, tolugboji <tolugboji@protonmail.com> 
wrote:

> I am debugging iteratively using the following
>
> echo ""
>
> find "$fdir" -type f -name "${fnam}-.png" -print0 | cat -vet
>
> echo
>
> echo "**"
>
> find "$fdir" -type f -name "${fnam}-*.png" -print0 | awk -F'[-.]' '{print 
> $(NF-1)+0, $0}' RS='\0' ORS='\n' | cat -vet
>
> echo
>
> *
>
> /home/flora/edvart/docs/schimmel-04.png^@/home/flora/edvart/docs/schimmel-05.png^@/home/flora/edvart/docs/schimmel-06.png^@/home/flora/edvart/docs/schimmel-07.png^@/home/flora/edvart/docs/schimmel-08.png^@/home/flora/edvart/docs/schimmel-09.png^@/home/flora/edvart/docs/schimmel-10.png^@/home/flora/edvart/docs/schimmel-11.png^@/home/flora/edvart/docs/schimmel-12.png^@/home/flora/edvart/docs/schimmel-13.png^@/home/flora/edvart/docs/schimmel-1.png^@/home/flora/edvart/docs/schimmel-2.png^@/home/flora/edvart/docs/schimmel-3.png^@
>
> **
>
> 4 /home/flora/edvart/docs/schimmel-04.png$
>
> /home/flora/edvart/docs/schimmel-04.png

Why does the following command print just one line?

find "$fdir" -type f -name "${fnam}-*.png" -print0 | awk -F'[-.]' '{print 
$(NF-1), $0}' | cat -vet

Result:
04 /home/flora/edvart/docs/schimmel-04.png$