Manual: uuidparse

UUIDPARSE(1)						User Commands						UUIDPARSE(1)

NAME
       uuidparse - a utility to parse unique identifiers

SYNOPSIS
       uuidparse [options] uuid

DESCRIPTION
       This command will parse unique identifier inputs from either command line arguments or standard input. The inputs are
       white-space separated.

OUTPUT
   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. │
       └────────────┴───────────────────────────────────────────┘

OPTIONS
       -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.

AUTHORS
       Sami Kerola 

SEE ALSO
       uuidgen(1), libuuid(3), RFC 4122 

REPORTING BUGS
       For bug reports, use the issue tracker .

AVAILABILITY
       The uuidparse command is part of the util-linux package which can be downloaded from Linux Kernel Archive
       .

util-linux 2.41.3					 2025-12-15						UUIDPARSE(1)