1 .\" Copyright 1999 Andreas Dilger (adilger@enel.ucalgary.ca)
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7 .\" Created Wed Mar 10 17:42:12 1999, Andreas Dilger
8 .TH UUIDGEN "@E2FSPROGS_MONTH@ @E2FSPROGS_YEAR@" "E2fsprogs version @E2FSPROGS_VERSION@"
10 uuidgen \- command\-line utility to create a new unique UUID value
18 program creates a new universally unique identifier using the
19 .BR libuuid "(3) functions " uuid_generate "(3) and " uuid_unparse "(3)."
20 The new UUID can reasonably be considered unique among all UUIDs created
21 on the local system, and among UUIDs created on other systems in the past
24 The UUID of the form 1b4e28ba\-2fa1\-11d2\-883f\-b9a761bde3fb (in
26 format "%08x\-%04x\-%04x\-%04x\-%012x") is output to the standard output.
31 was written by Andreas Dilger for libuuid.
34 is part of libuuid from the e2fsprogs package and is available for anonymous
35 ftp from tsx\-11.mit.edu (and its mirrors) in /pub/linux/packages/ext2fs.