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 2.40                   2024-04-06                      UUIDPARSE(1)