UUIDPARSE

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: 2017-06-18
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NAME

uuidparse - a utility to parse unique identifiers

uuidparse [options] uuid

This command will parse unique identifier inputs from either command line arguments or standard input. The inputs are white-space separated.

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.

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.

-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.

Sami Kerola

The example command is part of the util-linux package and is available from Linux Kernel Archive

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