uuidgen man page on aLinux

Man page or keyword search:  
man Server   7435 pages
apropos Keyword Search (all sections)
Output format
aLinux logo
[printable version]

UUIDGEN(1)							    UUIDGEN(1)

NAME
       uuidgen - command-line utility to create a new UUID value

SYNOPSIS
       uuidgen [ -r | -t ]

DESCRIPTION
       The uuidgen program creates (and prints) a new universally unique iden‐
       tifier (UUID) using the libuuid(3) library.  The new UUID  can  reason‐
       ably  be considered unique among all UUIDs created on the local system,
       and among UUIDs created on other systems in the past and in the future.

       There are two types of UUID's which uuidgen  can	 generate:  time-based
       UUID's  and  random-based  UUID's.   By default uuidgen will generate a
       random-based UUID if a high-quality random number generator is present.
       Otherwise,  it  will  chose a time-based UUID.  It is possible to force
       the generation of one of these two UUID types by using  the  -r	or  -t
       options.

OPTIONS
       -r     Generate	a  random-based UUID.  This method creates a UUID con‐
	      sisting mostly of random bits.  It requires that	the  operating
	      system  have  a  high  quality  random number generator, such as
	      /dev/random.

       -t     Generate a time-based UUID.  This method creates a UUID based on
	      the system clock plus the system's ethernet hardware address, if
	      present.

CONFORMING TO
       OSF DCE 1.1

AUTHOR
       uuidgen was written by Andreas Dilger for libuuid.

AVAILABILITY
       uuidgen is part of libuuid from the e2fsprogs package and is  available
       from http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net.

SEE ALSO
       libuuid(3)

E2fsprogs version 1.41.12	   May 2010			    UUIDGEN(1)
[top]

List of man pages available for aLinux

Copyright (c) for man pages and the logo by the respective OS vendor.

For those who want to learn more, the polarhome community provides shell access and support.

[legal] [privacy] [GNU] [policy] [cookies] [netiquette] [sponsors] [FAQ]
Tweet
Polarhome, production since 1999.
Member of Polarhome portal.
Based on Fawad Halim's script.
....................................................................
Vote for polarhome
Free Shell Accounts :: the biggest list on the net