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| 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/>.
| 2024-04-24 | util-linux 2.40.2 |