Manual: systemd-id128

SYSTEMD-ID128(1)					systemd-id128					    SYSTEMD-ID128(1)

NAME
       systemd-id128 - Generate and print sd-128 identifiers

SYNOPSIS

       systemd-id128 [OPTIONS...] new

       systemd-id128 [OPTIONS...] machine-id

       systemd-id128 [OPTIONS...] boot-id

       systemd-id128 [OPTIONS...] invocation-id

       systemd-id128 [OPTIONS...] var-partition-uuid

       systemd-id128 [OPTIONS...] show [NAME|UUID...]

DESCRIPTION
       id128 may be used to conveniently print sd-id128(3) UUIDs. What identifier is printed depends on the specific verb.

       With new, a new random identifier will be generated.

       With machine-id, the identifier of the current machine will be printed. See machine-id(5).

       With boot-id, the identifier of the current boot will be printed.

       With invocation-id, the identifier of the current service invocation will be printed. This is available in systemd
       services. See systemd.exec(5).

       With show, well-known IDs are printed (for now, only GPT partition type UUIDs), along with brief identifier strings.
       When no arguments are specified, all known IDs are shown. When arguments are specified, they may be the identifiers
       or ID values of one or more known IDs, which are then printed with their name, or arbitrary IDs, which are then
       printed with a placeholder name. Combine with --uuid to list the IDs in UUID style, i.e. the way GPT partition type
       UUIDs are usually shown.

       machine-id, boot-id, and show may be combined with the --app-specific=app-id switch to generate application-specific
       IDs. See sd_id128_get_machine(3) for the discussion when this is useful. Support for show --app-specific= was added
       in version 255.

       var-partition-uuid prints a UUID which, following the UAPI.2 Discoverable Partitions Specification[1], should be used
       as the GPT partition UUID for /var/, being derived from the GPT partition type, keyed by the local /etc/machine-id.
       Added in version 257.

OPTIONS
       The following options are understood:

       -p, --pretty
	   Generate output as programming language snippets.

	   Added in version 240.

       -P, --value
	   Only print the value. May be combined with -u/--uuid.

	   Added in version 255.

       -a app-id, --app-specific=app-id
	   With this option, identifiers will be printed that are the result of hashing the application identifier app-id
	   and another ID. The app-id argument must be a valid sd-id128 string identifying the application. When used with
	   machine-id, the other ID will be the machine ID as described in machine-id(5), when used with boot-id, the other
	   ID will be the boot ID, and when used with show, the other ID or IDs should be specified via the positional
	   arguments.

	   Added in version 240.

       -u, --uuid
	   Generate output as a UUID formatted in the "canonical representation", with five groups of digits separated by
	   hyphens. See the Wikipedia entry for Universally Unique Identifiers[2] for more discussion.

	   Added in version 244.

       --no-pager
	   Do not pipe output into a pager.

       --no-legend
	   Do not print the legend, i.e. column headers and the footer with hints.

       --json=MODE
	   Shows output formatted as JSON. Expects one of "short" (for the shortest possible output without any redundant
	   whitespace or line breaks), "pretty" (for a pretty version of the same, with indentation and line breaks) or
	   "off" (to turn off JSON output, the default).

       -j
	   Equivalent to --json=pretty if running on a terminal, and --json=short otherwise.

       -h, --help
	   Print a short help text and exit.

       --version
	   Print a short version string and exit.

EXIT STATUS
       On success 0 is returned, and a non-zero failure code otherwise.

EXAMPLES
       Example 1. Show a well-known UUID

	   $ systemd-id128 show --value user-home
	   773f91ef66d449b5bd83d683bf40ad16

	   $ systemd-id128 show --value --uuid user-home
	   773f91ef-66d4-49b5-bd83-d683bf40ad16

	   $ systemd-id128 show 773f91ef-66d4-49b5-bd83-d683bf40ad16
	   NAME	     ID
	   user-home 773f91ef66d449b5bd83d683bf40ad16

       Example 2. Generate an application-specific UUID

	   $ systemd-id128 machine-id -u
	   3a9d668b-4db7-4939-8a4a-5e78a03bffb7

	   $ systemd-id128 new -u
	   1fb8f24b-02df-458d-9659-cc8ace68e28a

	   $ systemd-id128 machine-id -u -a 1fb8f24b-02df-458d-9659-cc8ace68e28a
	   47b82cb1-5339-43da-b2a6-1c350aef1bd1

	   $ systemd-id128 -Pu show 3a9d668b-4db7-4939-8a4a-5e78a03bffb7 \
	       -a 1fb8f24b-02df-458d-9659-cc8ace68e28a
	   47b82cb1-5339-43da-b2a6-1c350aef1bd1

       On a given machine with the ID 3a9d668b-4db7-4939-8a4a-5e78a03bffb7, for the application
       1fb8f24b-02df-458d-9659-cc8ace68e28a, we generate an application-specific machine ID
       (47b82cb1-5339-43da-b2a6-1c350aef1bd1). If we want to later recreate the same calculation on a different machine, we
       need to specify both IDs explicitly as parameters to show.

SEE ALSO
       systemd(1), sd-id128(3), sd_id128_get_machine(3)

NOTES
	1. UAPI.2 Discoverable Partitions Specification
	   https://uapi-group.org/specifications/specs/discoverable_partitions_specification

	2. Universally Unique Identifiers
	   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier#Format

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