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/>.