Section 1 · User commands
uuidparse.1
Package: util-linux
UUIDPARSE
NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OUTPUT
OPTIONS
AUTHORS
SEE ALSO
REPORTING BUGS
AVAILABILITY
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/>.