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How to convert to / get RFC822 date in bash/linux?

Looking at date’s man page, I couldn’t find a standard way to convert to rfc822 (eg: from unix timestamp). I took a brief look at the spec, but I don’t know enough about the subject matter to get the format right. Is there a easy way to convert to rfc822 with standard linux terminal tools? A…

sed command to copy lines that have strings

I want to copy the line that have strings to another file for eg A file contain the below lines I want to copy the lines that has 100 or 200 to another file by skipping all the characters before (first occurrence in a line)100 or 200 I want it to copy 100 50 200 40 100 34 to another

C – get list of opened handlers – duplicate entries

I have this code to retrieve list of opened handlers (mostly FILE) However, when i call single fopen and run this, it prints the same file multiple times (from n to FD_SETSIZE, where n is some offset id… first 0 .. n are some system handlers like dev/nul etc.). Answer Your error check after fcntl(fd, F_…

Why there are many i686 RPMs in CentOS x86_64 repository?

I’m looking at http://mirror.centos.org/centos-7/7.3.1611/os/x86_64/Packages where there are many i686 RPMs included. Not every x86_64 RPM has its i686 RPM counterpart though. I thought i686 packages are for 32 bit machine only, but why are they present under x86_64 directory? Are they really needed for…