kodumaro-uuid-cli

UUID generator (RFC 4122).

This is a command line tool, do not install it using cargo add!!

Installation guide

You need to enable uuid_unstable configuration flag:

RUSTFLAGS='--cfg uuid_unstable' cargo install kodumaro-uuid-cli

It’s gonna create a ~/.cargo/bin/uuid executable.

Usage

Usage: uuid [COMMAND]

Commands:
  nil   generates nil UUID
  v1    generates UUIDv1, time-based UUID
  v3    generates UUIDv3, name-based MD5 UUID
  v4    generates UUIDv4, random UUID
  v5    generates UUIDv5, name-based SHA1 UUID
  v6    generates UUIDv6, field-compatible version of UUIDv1
  v7    generates UUIDv7, Unix Epoch timestamp-based UUID
  v8    generates UUIDv8, vendor-specific UUID
  help  Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)

Options:
  -h, --help  Print help

Examples

$ uuid
urn:uuid:4db78d44-e170-42a3-bf93-418b9baeae2b

$ uuid help
UUID generator (RFC 4122), see <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4122>

It generates UUID versions 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8, and nil UUID.

It returns the URN; if you want to emulate the same behaviour as uuigen (plain
UUID), set the env-var:

export UUID_MODE=uuidgen


Usage: uuid [COMMAND]

Commands:
  nil
          generates nil UUID
  v1
          generates UUIDv1, time-based UUID
  v3
          generates UUIDv3, name-based MD5 UUID
  v4
          generates UUIDv4, random UUID
  v5
          generates UUIDv5, name-based SHA1 UUID
  v6
          generates UUIDv6, field-compatible version of UUIDv1
  v7
          generates UUIDv7, Unix Epoch timestamp-based UUID
  v8
          generates UUIDv8, vendor-specific UUID
  help
          Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)

Options:
  -h, --help
          Print help (see a summary with '-h')

$ uuid nil
urn:uuid:00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000

$ uuid v1
urn:uuid:xxxxxxxx-xxxx-1xxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx

$ uuid v3 $(uuid v7) test
urn:uuid:5604097f-ffa0-3934-9635-cb03308240fe

$ uuid v5 $(uuid v7) test
urn:uuid:d8beedbe-ca82-57ef-8dc1-ca501caeb151

$ uuid v6 blabla
urn:uuid:xxxxxxxx-xxxx-6xxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx

$ uuid v7
urn:uuid:018800be-993e-7990-b64a-900ba7dd54e3

$ uuid v8 'Some long data!'
urn:uuid:536f6d65-206c-8f6e-a720-646174612100

$ UUID_MODE=uuidgen uuid v7
01880c8f-d233-7be3-b1f5-95ea2650457f

$ uuid help v8
generates UUIDv8, vendor-specific UUID

Usage: uuid v8 <METADATA>

Arguments:
  <METADATA>  vendor’s metadata to be encoded into the UUIDv8, up to 16 bytes

Options:
  -h, --help  Print help

License

• The 3-Clause BSD License

License: BSD-3-Clause