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 <[email protected]>, specifically for the Debian project (and may be used by others).