uuidgen(1) BSD General Commands Manual uuidgen(1)
NAME
uuidgen -- generates new UUID strings
SYNOPSIS
uuidgen [-hdr]
DESCRIPTION
The uuidgen command generates a Universally Unique IDentifier (UUID), a
128-bit value guaranteed to be unique over both space and time.
The following options are available:
-hdr Emit CoreFoundation CFUUID-based source code for using the uuid
in a header.
RETURN VALUE
The UUID is printed to standard output as a hyphen-punctuated ASCII
string of the form: EEF45689-BBE5-4FB6-9E80-41B78F6578E2 (in printf(3)
format "%08X-%04X-%04X-%04X-%012X"), unless the -hdr option is given, in
which case a fragment of source code is output.
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