Man1 - uuidparse.1
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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
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/karelzak/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/.