uuidparse

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  sepa-
       rated.

OUTPUT
   Variants
       NCS         Network Computing System identifier.  These were the origi-
                   nal 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
       Sami Kerola <kerolasa@iki.fi>

SEE ALSO
       uuidgen(1), libuuid(3), RFC 4122 <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4122>

AVAILABILITY
       The  example command is part of the util-linux package and is available
       from Linux Kernel Archive <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-
       linux/>.

util-linux                        2017-06-18                      UUIDPARSE(1)