uuidtrip (1)

uuidtrip [options...]

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.

-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

RFC 4122

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

This manual page was written by Hendrik Tews <[email protected]>, specifically for the Debian project (and may be used by others).