1 .TH uuidgen 1 "Tue Sep 23 09:54:24 UTC 2014"
4 uuidgen - command line utility for generating uuids
10 uuidgen [-n ns | -UXD] name ...
14 This program generates uuids and writes their canonical string representation
21 Generate a version 4 random uuid.
24 Generate a version 1 timestamp based uuid
26 .B \-n " namespace | oid | dns | x500 | url"
27 set the namespace for version 3 or version 5 uuids
30 Specify how many uuids to generate for version 1 and 4 uuids. UUIDs will
31 be output one per line on stdout.
34 Write a help message to stdout and exit.
38 The program will exit 0 on success, and non zero on failure. Running
39 witht the \-h or \-V switches will write the appropriate message
40 to stdout and exit successfully.
42 Errors will generate a message to stderr and nothing to stdout, as
43 well as exiting non-zero.
55 None. Program is in the public domain.