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uuidtrip(1) General Commands Manual uuidtrip(1)

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

SEE ALSO

RFC 4122
API documentation at /usr/share/doc/libuuidm-ocaml-dev/html/

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Hendrik Tews <hendrik@askra.de>, specifically for the Debian project (and may be used by others).
May 17, 2013