From: Sami Kerola Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2017 17:27:21 +0000 (+0000) Subject: man: use long options in text and add example to uuidgen X-Git-Tag: v2.31.1~18 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b95c50f3aa30a17423f0cce695ec4304c3f193ae;p=thirdparty%2Futil-linux.git man: use long options in text and add example to uuidgen Signed-off-by: Sami Kerola --- diff --git a/misc-utils/uuidgen.1 b/misc-utils/uuidgen.1 index 4b0fcb60c8..d5e1a56759 100644 --- a/misc-utils/uuidgen.1 +++ b/misc-utils/uuidgen.1 @@ -27,19 +27,19 @@ will generate a random-based UUID if a high-quality random number generator is present. Otherwise, it will choose a time-based UUID. It is possible to force the generation of one of these first two UUID types by using the -.B \-r +.B \-\-random or -.B \-t +.B \-\-time options. .PP The third type of UUID is generated with the -.B \-m +.B \-\-md5 or -.B \-s -options (MD5 or SHA1, respectively), followed by -.BR "\-n " \fInamespace +.B \-\-sha1 +options, followed by +\fB\-\-namespace\fR \fInamespace\fR and -.BR "\-N " \fIname\fR. +\fB\-\-name\fR \fIname\fR. The \fInamespace\fR may either be a well-known UUID, or else an alias to one of the well-known UUIDs defined in RFC 4122, that is .BR @dns , @@ -89,6 +89,8 @@ Generate the hash of the \fIname\fR. Interpret name \fIname\fR as a hexidecimal string. .SH "CONFORMING TO" OSF DCE 1.1 +.SH EXAMPLES +uuidgen \-\-sha1 \-\-namespace @dns \-\-name "www.example.com" .SH AUTHOR .B uuidgen was written by Andreas Dilger for libuuid.