uuidparse - a utility to parse unique identifiers
uuidparse [options] uuid
This command will parse unique identifier inputs from either command line arguments or standard input. The inputs are white-space separated.
| 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. |
| 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. |
-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.
-V, --version
Display version information and exit.
-h, --help
Display help text and exit.
uuidgen(1), libuuid(3), RFC 4122 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4122
For bug reports, use the issue tracker at https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues.
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/.