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| UUIDPARSE(1) | User Commands | UUIDPARSE(1) |
NAME¶
uuidparse - an 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¶
SEE ALSO¶
uuidgen(1), libuuid(3), RFC 4122
AVAILABILITY¶
The example command is part of the util-linux package and is available from Linux Kernel Archive.
| 2017-06-18 | util-linux |