uuidparse(1) — Linux manual page

UUIDPARSE(1)                  User Commands                 UUIDPARSE(1)

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.

       -h, --help
           Display help text and exit.

       -V, --version
           Print version and exit.

AUTHORS

       Sami Kerola <kerolasa@iki.fi>

SEE ALSO

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

REPORTING BUGS

       For bug reports, use the issue tracker at
       https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/issues.

AVAILABILITY

       The uuidparse command is part of the util-linux package which can
       be downloaded from Linux Kernel Archive
       <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/>. This page
       is part of the util-linux (a random collection of Linux
       utilities) project. Information about the project can be found at
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util-linux 2.39.594-1e0ad      2023-07-19                   UUIDPARSE(1)

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