UUIDPARSE(1) User Commands UUIDPARSE(1)
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
Display 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
<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/>.
util-linux 2.41 2025-02-26 UUIDPARSE(1)
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