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NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | OUTPUT | OPTIONS | AUTHORS | SEE ALSO | REPORTING BUGS | AVAILABILITY |
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UUIDPARSE(1) User Commands UUIDPARSE(1)
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.
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. │
└────────────┴──────────────────────────┘
-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.
Sami Kerola <kerolasa@iki.fi>
uuidgen(1), libuuid(3), RFC 4122
<https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4122>
For bug reports, use the issue tracker
<https://github.com/util-linux/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/>. This page is
part of the util-linux (a random collection of Linux utilities)
project. Information about the project can be found at
⟨https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/⟩. If you have a
bug report for this manual page, send it to
util-linux@vger.kernel.org. This page was obtained from the
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⟨git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/util-linux/util-linux.git⟩ on
2025-08-11. (At that time, the date of the most recent commit that
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