NAME

       uuidtrip - generate universally unique identifiers (RFC 4122)

SYNOPSIS

       uuidtrip [options...]

DESCRIPTION

       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.

OPTIONS

       -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

SEE ALSO

       RFC 4122

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

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Hendrik  Tews  <hendrik@askra.de>,  specifically  for  the
       Debian project (and may be used by others).

                                          May  17, 2013                               uuidtrip(1)