ossp-pkg/uuid/uuid_cli.pod
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## OSSP uuid - Universally Unique Identifier
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## uuid_cli.pod: manual page
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=pod
=head1 NAME
B<OSSP uuid> - B<Universally Unique Identifier Command-Line Tool>
=head1 VERSION
OSSP uuid UUID_VERSION_STR
=head1 SYNOPSIS
B<uuid>
[B<-v> I<version>]
[B<-m>]
[B<-n> I<count>]
[B<-1>]
[B<-r>]
[B<-o> I<filename>]
[I<namespace> I<name>]
B<uuid>
B<-d>
[B<-r>]
[B<-o> I<filename>]
[I<uuid>]
=head1 DESCRIPTION
B<OSSP uuid> is a ISO-C application programming interface (API) and
corresponding command line interface (CLI) for the generation of DCE
1.1 and ISO/IEC 11578:1996 compliant I<Universally Unique Identifier>
(UUID). It supports DCE 1.1 variant UUIDs of version 1 (time and node
based), version 3 (name based) and version 4 (random number based).
UUIDs are 128 bit numbers which are intended to have a high likelihood
of uniqueness over space and time and are computationally difficult
to guess. They are globally unique identifiers which can be locally
generated without contacting a global registration authority. UUIDs
are intended as unique identifiers for both mass tagging objects
with an extremely short lifetime and to reliably identifying very
persistent objects across a network.
This is the command line interface (CLI) of B<OSSP uuid>. For a
detailed description of UUIDs see the documentation of the application
programming interface (API) in uuid(3).
=head1 OPTIONS
=over 3
=item B<-v> I<version>
Sets the version of the generated DCE 1.1 variant UUID. Supported
are I<version> "C<1>", "C<3>" and "C<4>". The default is "C<1>".
For version 3 UUIDs the additional command line arguments I<namespace>
and I<name> have to be given. The I<namespace> is either a UUID in
string representation or an identifier for internally pre-defined
namespace UUIDs (currently known are "C<ns:DNS>", "C<ns:URL>",
"C<ns:OID>", and "C<ns:X500>"). The I<name> is a string of arbitrary
length.
=item B<-m>
Forces the use of a random multi-cast MAC address when generating
version 1 UUIDs. By default the real physical MAC address of the system
is used.
=item B<-n> I<count>
Generate I<count> UUIDs instead of just a single one (the default).
=item B<-1>
If option B<-n> is used with a I<count> greater than C<1>, then this
option can enforce the reset the UUID context for each generated UUID.
This makes no difference for I<version> C<3> and C<4> UUIDs. But
version C<1> UUIDs are based on the previously generated UUID which is
remembered in the UUID context of the API. Option B<-1> deletes the
remembered UUID on each iteration.
=item B<-r>
Output the generated UUID in 128 bit (network byte order) raw binary
representation format. The default is to output the generated UUID in
the standardized ASCII string representation.
=item B<-o> I<filename>
Write output to I<filename> instead of to F<stdout>.
=item B<-d>
Decode a given UUID (either on F<stdin> or as an argument on the command
line) and dump textual information about the UUID.
=back
=head1 EXAMPLES
# generate DCE 1.1 v1 UUID (time and node based)
$ uuid -v1
01c47915-4777-11d8-bc70-0090272ff725
# decode and dump DCE 1.1 v1 UUID (time and node based)
$ uuid -d 01c47915-4777-11d8-bc70-0090272ff725
UUID: 01c47915-4777-11d8-bc70-0090272ff725
variant: DCE 1.1, ISO/IEC 11578:1996
version: 1 (time and node based)
content: time: 2004-01-15 16:22:26.376322.1 UTC
clock: 15472 (usually random)
node: 00:90:27:2f:f7:25 (global unicast)
# generate DCE 1.1 v3 UUID (name based)
$ uuid -v3 ns:URL http://www.ossp.org/
02d9e6d5-9467-382e-8f9b-9300a64ac3cd
# decode and dump DCE 1.1 v3 UUID (name based)
$ uuid -d 02d9e6d5-9467-382e-8f9b-9300a64ac3cd
UUID: 02d9e6d5-9467-382e-8f9b-9300a64ac3cd
variant: DCE 1.1, ISO/IEC 11578:1996
version: 3 (name based)
content: 02:D9:E6:D5:94:67:08:2E:0F:9B:93:00:A6:4A:C3:CD
(not decipherable, because message digest only)
# generate DCE 1.1 v4 UUID 4 (random data based)
$ uuid -v4
eb424026-6f54-4ef8-a4d0-bb658a1fc6cf
# decode and dump DCE 1.1 v4 UUID 4 (random data based)
$ uuid -d eb424026-6f54-4ef8-a4d0-bb658a1fc6cf
UUID: eb424026-6f54-4ef8-a4d0-bb658a1fc6cf
variant: DCE 1.1, ISO/IEC 11578:1996
version: 4 (random data based)
content: EB:42:40:26:6F:54:0E:F8:24:D0:BB:65:8A:1F:C6:CF
(no semantics, because random data only)
=head1 SEE ALSO
uuid(3).
=cut
