UUIDGEN(1) BSD General Commands Manual UUIDGEN(1)

NAME
     uuuuiiddggeenn - generates new UUID strings

SYNOPSIS
     uuuuiiddggeenn [-hdr]

DESCRIPTION
     The uuuuiiddggeenn command generates a Universally Unique IDentifier (UUID), a
     128-bit value guaranteed to be unique over both space and time.

     The following options are available:

     -hhddrr      Emit CoreFoundation CFUUID-based source code for using the uuid
               in a header.

RREETTUURRNN VVAALLUUEE
     The UUID is printed to standard output as a hyphen-punctuated ASCII
     string of the form: EEF45689-BBE5-4FB6-9E80-41B78F6578E2 (in printf(3)
     format "%08X-%04X-%04X-%04X-%012X"), unless the -hdr option is given, in
     which case a fragment of source code is output.

Mac OS X                         July 1, 2005                         Mac OS X