Uuidparse (1) Linux Manual Page

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

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/>.

uuidparse (1) Linux Manual Page