Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 14:04:48 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: "TEMPLE, MATTHEW (LNG)" <matthew.temple@lexis-nexis.com> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: uuidgen or other GUID-generating utility Message-ID: <20000524140448.A15434@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <27E4B476932BD211945B00805FE67AF5089DE1D9@lnxdayexch05.lexis-nexis.com>; from "TEMPLE, MATTHEW (LNG)" on Wed May 24 13:58:20 GMT 2000 References: <27E4B476932BD211945B00805FE67AF5089DE1D9@lnxdayexch05.lexis-nexis.com>
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In the last episode (May 24), TEMPLE, MATTHEW (LNG) said: > I need a globally unique ID, like 28eea00e-a872-491e-8848-a9b8daf3314b. > Linux and Solaris have a utility called uuidgen that spits them out. Solaris doesn't have anything like that (on 2.6 at least), and Linux's uuidgen simply generates a random string. This should do what you want: printf "%s%s-%s-%s-%s-%s%s%s\n" `jot -r -w "%04x" 8 0 65536` -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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