Provided by: uuid-runtime_2.40.2-14ubuntu1_amd64 
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/>.