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| author | Fernando Apesteguía <fernape@FreeBSD.org> | 2023-09-07 15:17:38 +0000 |
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| committer | Fernando Apesteguía <fernape@FreeBSD.org> | 2024-04-27 18:53:59 +0000 |
| commit | 6e74b603fc021761c0a20e08f58b674f45ad5f04 (patch) | |
| tree | ea1330e7d5c7c5828b6880fd5feb3630506dcd9c | |
| parent | 9718d4ab99386918f5b5c207c58289eaade20623 (diff) | |
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uuidgen(1): Add EXAMPLES to manual page
Approved by: manpages@ (gbe@)
Reviewed by: gbe@, pauamma
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D43494
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diff --git a/bin/uuidgen/uuidgen.1 b/bin/uuidgen/uuidgen.1 index 51475c900bbc..1c2e7cce91d3 100644 --- a/bin/uuidgen/uuidgen.1 +++ b/bin/uuidgen/uuidgen.1 @@ -77,6 +77,30 @@ to each other, but operating system latency and processing time will be reflected in the distance between two successive identifiers. .Sh EXIT STATUS .Ex -std +.Sh EXAMPLES +Generate a batch of three UUIDs. +Notice the similarity of the string before the first hyphen of the UUID +(known as +.Em time_low +in +.Em rfc4122 +): +.Bd -literal -offset indent +$ uuidgen -n3 +8bc44345-4d90-11ee-88c7-b42e991fc52e +8bc44346-4d90-11ee-88c7-b42e991fc52e +8bc44347-4d90-11ee-88c7-b42e991fc52e +.Ed +.Pp +Generate a batch of random UUIDs without hyphens: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +$ uuidgen -r -c -n3 +5ad8b60a0f4e41f59c82d273202275f9 +6c41925486cd4bf59720a5bad85de2e4 +8144fdab63f648a1812d12453f975313 +.Ed +.Pp +Notice that the UUIDs are not similar to each other. .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr uuidgen 2 , .Xr uuid 3 |