UUIDPARSE

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: 2017-06-18
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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 Foundation's (OSF) Distributed Computing Environment UUIDs.
Microsoft Microsoft Windows platform globally unique identifier (GUID).
other Unknown variant. Usually invalid input data.
 

Types

nilSpecial type for zero in type file.
time-basedThe DCE time based.
DCEThe DCE time and MAC Address.
name-basedRFC 4122 md5sum hash.
randomRFC 4122 random.
sha1-basedRFC 4122 sha-1 hash.
unknownUnknown 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.
-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 uuidparse command is part of the util-linux package and is available from Linux Kernel Archive


 

Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OUTPUT
Variants
Types
OPTIONS
AUTHORS
SEE ALSO
AVAILABILITY