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| author | Sami Kerola | 2017-11-26 18:27:21 +0100 |
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| committer | Karel Zak | 2017-11-28 14:39:15 +0100 |
| commit | bfcd327541e207d02aa5e12ccb7e5c9874b8c96f (patch) | |
| tree | 1911eb1efef52452593253c655ec013f31acdc86 /misc-utils/uuidgen.1 | |
| parent | misc: fix typos (diff) | |
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man: use long options in text and add example to uuidgen
Signed-off-by: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@iki.fi>
Diffstat (limited to 'misc-utils/uuidgen.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | misc-utils/uuidgen.1 | 16 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/misc-utils/uuidgen.1 b/misc-utils/uuidgen.1 index 4b0fcb60c..d5e1a5675 100644 --- a/misc-utils/uuidgen.1 +++ b/misc-utils/uuidgen.1 @@ -27,19 +27,19 @@ will generate a random-based UUID if a high-quality random number generator is present. Otherwise, it will choose a time-based UUID. It is possible to force the generation of one of these first two UUID types by using the -.B \-r +.B \-\-random or -.B \-t +.B \-\-time options. .PP The third type of UUID is generated with the -.B \-m +.B \-\-md5 or -.B \-s -options (MD5 or SHA1, respectively), followed by -.BR "\-n " \fInamespace +.B \-\-sha1 +options, followed by +\fB\-\-namespace\fR \fInamespace\fR and -.BR "\-N " \fIname\fR. +\fB\-\-name\fR \fIname\fR. The \fInamespace\fR may either be a well-known UUID, or else an alias to one of the well-known UUIDs defined in RFC 4122, that is .BR @dns , @@ -89,6 +89,8 @@ Generate the hash of the \fIname\fR. Interpret name \fIname\fR as a hexidecimal string. .SH "CONFORMING TO" OSF DCE 1.1 +.SH EXAMPLES +uuidgen \-\-sha1 \-\-namespace @dns \-\-name "www.example.com" .SH AUTHOR .B uuidgen was written by Andreas Dilger for libuuid. |