uuidparse (1)
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Copyright (c) 2017 Sami Kerola
The 3-Clause BSD License
(The comments found at the beginning of the groff file "man1/uuidparse.1".)
NAME
uuidparse - an utility to parse unique identifiers
SYNOPSIS
uuidparse
[options]
uuid
DESCRIPTION
This command will parse unique identifier inputs from either command line
arguments or standard input. The inputs are white-space separated.
OUTPUT
Variants
| NCS | Network Computing System identifier. These were the original UUIDs. |
|
| DCE | The Open Software Foundation's (OSF) Distributed Computing Environment UUIDs. |
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| Microsoft | Microsoft Windows platform globally unique identifier (GUID). |
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| other | Unknown variant. Usually invalid input data. |
|
Types
| nil | Special type for zero in type file. |
|
| time-based | The DCE time based. |
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| DCE | The DCE time and MAC Address. |
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| name-based | RFC 4122 md5sum hash. |
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| random | RFC 4122 random. |
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| sha1-based | RFC 4122 sha-1 hash. |
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| unknown | Unknown type. Usually invalid input data. |
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OPTIONS
- -J, --json
-
Use JSON output format.
- -n, --noheadings
-
Do not print a header line.
- -o, --output
-
Specify which output columns to print. Use --help to get a list of all
supported columns.
- -r, --raw
-
Use the raw output format.
- -V, --version
-
Display version information and exit.
- -h, --help
-
Display help text and exit.
AUTHORS
Sami Kerola
SEE ALSO
uuidgen(1),
libuuid(3),
RFC 4122
AVAILABILITY
The example command is part of the util-linux package and is available from
Linux Kernel Archive