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Re:PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux by inimino on Saturday August 20, 2016 @09:20PM (#12329042)
The Unix answer is why are you using a regex on tab-separated values? Wrong tool for the job.

Of course the problem with Unix is that there are a thousand different semi-structured text formats, edge cases, and tools that must be mastered before you can make any sense of it all. Any time you point out the pain a Unix fan can just respond by pointing out your ignorance.

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Re:PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux by haberman on Sunday August 21, 2016 @04:32PM (#12332614)
> The Unix answer is why are you using a regex on tab-separated values?

They aren't tab-separated. There are no tabs in readelf output.

Also if you assume they are space-separated, note that the first few lines look like this:

    Symbol table '.dynsym' contains 164 entries:
       Num:    Value          Size Type    Bind   Vis      Ndx Name
         0: 0000000000000000     0 NOTYPE  LOCAL  DEFAULT  UND
> respond by pointing out your ignorance.

Indeed.

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