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##
##  OSSP uuid - Universally Unique Identifier
##  Copyright (c) 2004-2008 Ralf S. Engelschall <rse@engelschall.com>
##  Copyright (c) 2004-2008 The OSSP Project <http://www.ossp.org/>
##
##  This file is part of OSSP uuid, a library for the generation
##  of UUIDs which can found at http://www.ossp.org/pkg/lib/uuid/
##
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##
##  uuid_cli.pod: manual page
##

=pod

=head1 NAME

B<OSSP uuid> - B<Universally Unique Identifier Command-Line Tool>

=head1 VERSION

OSSP uuid UUID_VERSION_STR

=head1 SYNOPSIS

B<uuid>
[B<-v> I<version>]
[B<-m>]
[B<-n> I<count>]
[B<-1>]
[B<-F> I<format>]
[B<-o> I<filename>]
[I<namespace> I<name>]

B<uuid>
B<-d>
[B<-r>]
[B<-o> I<filename>]
I<uuid>

=head1 DESCRIPTION

B<OSSP uuid> is a ISO-C:1999 application programming interface (API) and
corresponding command line interface (CLI) for the generation of DCE
1.1, ISO/IEC 11578:1996 and IETF RFC-4122 compliant I<Universally Unique
Identifier> (UUID). It supports DCE 1.1 variant UUIDs of version 1 (time
and node based), version 3 (name based, MD5), version 4 (random number
based) and version 5 (name based, SHA-1). Additional API bindings are
provided for the languages ISO-C++:1998, Perl:5 and PHP:4/5. Optional
backward compatibility exists for the ISO-C DCE-1.1 and Perl Data::UUID
APIs.

UUIDs are 128 bit numbers which are intended to have a high likelihood
of uniqueness over space and time and are computationally difficult
to guess. They are globally unique identifiers which can be locally
generated without contacting a global registration authority. UUIDs
are intended as unique identifiers for both mass tagging objects
with an extremely short lifetime and to reliably identifying very
persistent objects across a network.

This is the command line interface (CLI) of B<OSSP uuid>. For a
detailed description of UUIDs see the documentation of the application
programming interface (API) in uuid(3).

=head1 OPTIONS

=over 3

=item B<-v> I<version>

Sets the version of the generated DCE 1.1 variant UUID. Supported
are I<version> "C<1>", "C<3>", "C<4>" and "C<5>". The default is "C<1>".

For version 3 and version 5 UUIDs the additional command line arguments
I<namespace> and I<name> have to be given. The I<namespace> is either
a UUID in string representation or an identifier for internally
pre-defined namespace UUIDs (currently known are "C<ns:DNS>",
"C<ns:URL>", "C<ns:OID>", and "C<ns:X500>"). The I<name> is a string of
arbitrary length.

=item B<-m>

Forces the use of a random multi-cast MAC address when generating
version 1 UUIDs. By default the real physical MAC address of the system
is used.

=item B<-n> I<count>

Generate I<count> UUIDs instead of just a single one (the default).

=item B<-1>

If option B<-n> is used with a I<count> greater than C<1>, then this
option can enforce the reset the UUID context for each generated UUID.
This makes no difference for I<version> C<3>, C<4> and C<5> UUIDs. But
version C<1> UUIDs are based on the previously generated UUID which is
remembered in the UUID context of the API. Option B<-1> deletes the
remembered UUID on each iteration.

=item B<-F> I<format>

Representation format for importing or exporting an UUID. The
following (case insensitive) format identifiers are currently recognized:

=over 4

=item C<BIN> (binary representation)

This is the raw 128 bit network byte order binary representation of a
UUID. Example is the octet stream C<0xF8 0x1D 0x4F 0xAE 0x7D 0xEC 0x11
0xD0 0xA7 0x65 0x00 0xA0 0xC9 0x1E 0x6B 0xF6>.

=item C<STR> (string representation)

This is the 36 character hexadecimal ASCII string representation of a
UUID. Example is the string "C<f81d4fae-7dec-11d0-a765-00a0c91e6bf6>".

=item C<SIV> (single integer value representation)

This is the maximum 39 character long single integer
value representation of a UUID. Example is the string
"C<329800735698586629295641978511506172918>".

=back

=item B<-o> I<filename>

Write output to I<filename> instead of to F<stdout>.

=item B<-d>

Decode a given UUID (given as a command line argument or if the command
line argument is "C<->" the UUID is read from F<stdin>) and dump textual
information about the UUID.

=back

=head1 EXAMPLES

 # generate DCE 1.1 v1 UUID (time and node based)
 $ uuid -v1
 01c47915-4777-11d8-bc70-0090272ff725

 # decode and dump DCE 1.1 v1 UUID (time and node based)
 $ uuid -d 01c47915-4777-11d8-bc70-0090272ff725
 encode: STR:     01c47915-4777-11d8-bc70-0090272ff725
         SIV:     2349374037528578887923094374772111141
 decode: variant: DCE 1.1, ISO/IEC 11578:1996
         version: 1 (time and node based)
         content: time:  2004-01-15 16:22:26.376322.1 UTC
                  clock: 15472 (usually random)
                  node:  00:90:27:2f:f7:25 (global unicast)

 # generate DCE 1.1 v3 UUID (name based)
 $ uuid -v3 ns:URL http://www.ossp.org/
 02d9e6d5-9467-382e-8f9b-9300a64ac3cd

 # decode and dump DCE 1.1 v3 UUID (name based)
 $ uuid -d 02d9e6d5-9467-382e-8f9b-9300a64ac3cd
 encode: STR:     02d9e6d5-9467-382e-8f9b-9300a64ac3cd
         SIV:     3789866285607910888100818383505376205
 decode: variant: DCE 1.1, ISO/IEC 11578:1996
         version: 3 (name based, MD5)
         content: 02:D9:E6:D5:94:67:08:2E:0F:9B:93:00:A6:4A:C3:CD
                  (not decipherable: MD5 message digest only)

 # generate DCE 1.1 v4 UUID 4 (random data based)
 $ uuid -v4
 eb424026-6f54-4ef8-a4d0-bb658a1fc6cf

 # decode and dump DCE 1.1 v4 UUID 4 (random data based)
 $ uuid -d eb424026-6f54-4ef8-a4d0-bb658a1fc6cf
 encode: STR:     eb424026-6f54-4ef8-a4d0-bb658a1fc6cf
         SIV:     312712571721458096795100956955942831823
 decode: variant: DCE 1.1, ISO/IEC 11578:1996
         version: 4 (random data based)
         content: EB:42:40:26:6F:54:0E:F8:24:D0:BB:65:8A:1F:C6:CF
                  (no semantics: random data only)

=head1 SEE ALSO

uuid(3), OSSP::uuid(3).

=cut

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