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‘-f FIELD-LIST’ ‘--fields=FIELD-LIST’ Select for printing only the fields listed in FIELD-LIST. Fields are separated by a TAB character by default. Also print any line that contains no delimiter character, unless the ‘--only-delimited’ (‘-s’) option is specified. one might even one is to put tabs in our FIELD-LIST, or maybe dashes or commas. And maybe ranges are not supported, etc.