uuidtrip(1)

💖 uuidtrip(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the General Commands Manual entry for uuidtrip, and honestly? she's a lil legend 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

uuidtrip — generate universally unique identifiers (RFC 4122)

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

uuidtrip [options...]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so uuidtrip generates and prints universally unique identifiers — version 3, version 5 (name based, using MD5 and SHA-1 hashing respectively) and version 4 (random based) — all according to RFC 4122. no cap. 💅

basically it hands you command line access to most functions of the UUIDM library. it's giving "the library, but make it a CLI." iconic.

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -r — generate a random based UUID version 4. this is the default, bestie, so if you just run it with no flags you still get a UUID. slay.
• -ns uuid — set the name space for version 3 and version 5 name based UUID's (that's the -md5 and -sha1 options, iykyk). the default is the DNS namespace.
• -name name — set the name for version 3 and version 5 name based UUID's (again, -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 a string with uppercase letters (default is lowercase letters, so this is the glow-up option 💅).
• -b — output the generated UUID as raw bytes (binary). not for the faint of heart, fr fr 🙈
• -help — print the list of options and exit.
• --help — alias for -help. same energy, different dashes. 🫶

🌈 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). we love a specific-purpose author moment. 💖

and that's the whole page, bestie! this lil cutie is from the General Commands Manual and the page is dated May 17, 2013 — uuidtrip(1), periodt. 🎀✨🦋