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 2.39.3                                           2023-10-23                                               UUIDPARSE(1)