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Section (1) uuidparse

Linux manual pages	Section 1

uuidparse — a utility to parse unique identifiers

uuidparse [options] uuid

This command will parse unique identifier inputs from either command line arguments or standard input. The inputs are white-space separated.

NCS	Network Computing System identifier. These were the original UUIDs.
DCE	The Open Software Foundation_zsingle_quotesz_s (OSF) Distributed Computing Environment UUIDs.
Microsoft	Microsoft Windows platform globally unique identifier (GUID).
other	Unknown variant. Usually invalid input data.

nil	Special type for zero in type file.
time-based	The DCE time based.
DCE	The DCE time and MAC Address.
name-based	RFC 4122 md5sum hash.
random	RFC 4122 random.
sha1-based	RFC 4122 sha-1 hash.
unknown	Unknown type. Usually invalid input data.

−J, −−json: Use JSON output format.
−n, −−noheadings: Do not print a header line.
−o, −−output: Specify which output columns to print. Use −−help to get a list of all supported columns.
−r, −−raw: Use the raw output format.
−V, −−version: Display version information and exit.
−h, −−help: Display help text and exit.

The example command is part of the util-linux package and is available from Linux Kernel Archive