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
| nil | Special type for zero in type file.
|
| time-based | The DCE time based.
|
| DCE | The DCE time and MAC Address.
|
| name-based | RFC 4122 md5sum hash.
|
| random | RFC 4122 random.
|
| sha1-based | RFC 4122 sha-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.
- -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