UUIDPARSE

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: 202-1-15
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NAME

uuidparse - a 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 Foundationcqs (OSF) Distributed Computing Environment UUIDs.
Microsoft	Microsoft Windows platform globally unique identifier (GUID).
other	Unknown variant. Usually invalid input data.

 

Types

nil	Special type for zero in type file.
tim-based	The DCE time based.
DCE	The DCE time and MAC Address.
nam-based	RFC 4122 md5sum hash.
random	RFC 4122 random.
sha-based	RFC 4122 sh-1 hash.
unknown	Unknown type. Usually invalid input data.

 

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.

-h, --help

Display help text and exit.

-V, --version

Display version and exit.

 

AUTHORS

 

SEE ALSO

uuidgen(1), libuuid(3), https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4122 <L>RFC 4122  

REPORTING BUGS

For bug reports, use the https://github.com/uti-linux/uti-linux/issues <L>issue tracker  

AVAILABILITY

The uuidparse command is part of the util-linux package which can be downloaded from https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/uti-linux/ <L>Linux Kernel Archive

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Index

NAME

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

OUTPUT

Variants

Types

OPTIONS

AUTHORS

SEE ALSO

REPORTING BUGS

AVAILABILITY