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+.\" Copyright 1999 Andreas Dilger (adilger@enel.ucalgary.ca)
+.\"
+.\" This man page was created for libuuid.so.1.1 from e2fsprogs-1.14.
+.\"
+.\" This file may be copied under the terms of the GNU Public License.
+.\"
+.\" Created  Wed Mar 10 17:42:12 1999, Andreas Dilger
+.TH UUIDGEN 1 "@E2FSPROGS_MONTH@ @E2FSPROGS_YEAR@" "E2fsprogs version @E2FSPROGS_VERSION@"
+.SH NAME
+uuidgen \- command\-line utility to create a new UUID value
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B uuidgen
+[
+.B \-r
+|
+.B \-t
+]
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+The
+.B uuidgen
+program creates (and prints)
+a new universally unique identifier (UUID) using the
+.BR libuuid (3)
+library.  The new UUID can reasonably 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.
+.PP
+There are two types of UUID's which
+.B uuidgen
+can generate: time-based UUID's and random-based UUID's.  By
+default
+.B 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
+.B \-r
+or
+.B \-t
+options.
+.SH OPTIONS
+.TP
+.B \-r
+Generate a random-based UUID.  This method creates a UUID consisting mostly
+of random bits.  It requires that the operating system have a high
+quality random number generator, such as
+.IR /dev/random .
+.TP
+.B \-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.
+.SH "CONFORMING TO"
+OSF DCE 1.1
+.SH AUTHOR
+.B uuidgen
+was written by Andreas Dilger for libuuid.
+.SH AVAILABILITY
+.B uuidgen
+is part of libuuid from the e2fsprogs package and is available from
+http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net.
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.BR libuuid (3)