uuidtrip(1)

generate universally unique identifiers (RFC 4122)

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Description

uuidtrip

NAME

uuidtrip - generate universally unique identifiers (RFC 4122)

SYNOPSIS

uuidtrip [options...]

DESCRIPTION

uuidtrip generates and prints universally unique identifiers version 3, 5 (name based with MD5, SHA-1 hashing) and 4 (random based) according to RFC 4122. uuidtrip provides command line access for most functions of the UUIDM library.

OPTIONS

-r

Generate a random based UUID version 4. This is the default.

-ns uuid

set the name space for version 3 and version 5 name based UUID’s (options -md5 and -sha1). The default is the DNS namespace.

-name name

set the name for version 3 and version 5 name based UUID’s (options -md5 and -sha1). The default is www.example.org.

	-md5		Generate an MD5 name based UUID version 3.
	-sha1		Generate an SHA-1 name based UUID version 5.
	-u		Output the generated UUID as string with uppercase letters (default is lowercase letters).
	-b		Output the generated UUID as raw bytes (binary).
	-help		Print the list of options and exit
	--help		Alias for -help

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Hendrik Tews <hendrik@askra.de>, specifically for the Debian project (and may be used by others).