.SH DESCRIPTION
The
.B uuidgen
-program creates a new universally unique identifier (UUID) using the
+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,
.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 RETURN VALUE
-The UUID of the form 1b4e28ba-2fa1-11d2-883f-b9a761bde3fb (in
-.BR printf (3)
-format "%08x-%04x-%04x-%04x-%012x") is output to the standard output.
.SH "CONFORMING TO"
OSF DCE 1.1
.SH AUTHOR
was written by Andreas Dilger for libuuid.
.SH AVAILABILITY
.B uuidgen
-is part of libuuid from the e2fsprogs package and is available for anonymous
-ftp from tsx\-11.mit.edu (and its mirrors) in /pub/linux/packages/ext2fs.
+is part of libuuid from the e2fsprogs package and is available from
+http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR libuuid (3)