From 464df1d5e5ab1322e2dd0a7796939fff1aeefa9a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Baumann Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2024 17:49:25 +0200 Subject: Adding upstream version 1.47.0. Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann --- misc/uuidgen.1.in | 63 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 63 insertions(+) create mode 100644 misc/uuidgen.1.in (limited to 'misc/uuidgen.1.in') diff --git a/misc/uuidgen.1.in b/misc/uuidgen.1.in new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cb8b3a8 --- /dev/null +++ b/misc/uuidgen.1.in @@ -0,0 +1,63 @@ +.\" 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) -- cgit v1.2.3