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UUIDPARSE(1) User Commands UUIDPARSE(1)

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/>.

util-linux 2.39 2022-05-11 UUIDPARSE(1)