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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

Generate a random based UUID version 4. This is the default.
set the name space for version 3 and version 5 name based UUID's (options -md5 and -sha1). The default is the DNS namespace.
set the name for version 3 and version 5 name based UUID's (options -md5 and -sha1). The default is www.example.org.
Generate an MD5 name based UUID version 3.
Generate an SHA-1 name based UUID version 5.
Output the generated UUID as string with uppercase letters (default is lowercase letters).
Output the generated UUID as raw bytes (binary).
Print the list of options and exit
Alias for -help

SEE ALSO

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