RE: "How did I live without this?"

["Wilson, Douglas" <dgwilson@sonomasystems.net>]

And there's no point in that s///;
Edited again. Sorry for the online thinking out loud.
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I think I've gone overkill on modifying this, but
in case you want, say, field 1 and 2 and the last field,
you can say:
f 1 2 -1 filename(s)

BEGIN {                              
  usage() unless @ARGV;              
  while ($ARGV[0] =~ /^(\+|-)?\d+/) {
    my $field = shift;
    $field-- if $field > 0;          
    push @fields, $field;            
  }                                  
  shift if $ARGV[0] eq '--';          
}                                    
                                     
print "@F[@fields]";                 
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