---
name: "uuidtrip"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "libuuidm-ocaml-dev"
version: "0.9.10-1+b1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/uuidtrip"
---

# uuidtrip(1)

generate universally unique identifiers (RFC 4122)

## 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).*