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SYSTEMD-ID128(1)              systemd-id128             SYSTEMD-ID128(1)

NAME         top

       systemd-id128 - Generate and print sd-128 identifiers

SYNOPSIS         top


       systemd-id128 [OPTIONS...] new

       systemd-id128 [OPTIONS...] machine-id

       systemd-id128 [OPTIONS...] boot-id

       systemd-id128 [OPTIONS...] invocation-id

       systemd-id128 [OPTIONS...] show [NAME|UUID...]

DESCRIPTION         top

       id128 may be used to conveniently print sd-id128(3) UUIDs. What
       identifier is printed depends on the specific verb.

       With new, a new random identifier will be generated.

       With machine-id, the identifier of the current machine will be
       printed. See machine-id(5).

       With boot-id, the identifier of the current boot will be printed.

       With invocation-id, the identifier of the current service
       invocation will be printed. This is available in systemd
       services. See systemd.exec(5).

       With show, well-known IDs are printed (for now, only GPT
       partition type UUIDs), along with brief identifier strings. When
       no arguments are specified, all known IDs are shown. When
       arguments are specified, they may be the identifiers or ID values
       of one or more known IDs, which are then printed with their name,
       or arbitrary IDs, which are then printed with a placeholder name.
       Combine with --uuid to list the IDs in UUID style, i.e. the way
       GPT partition type UUIDs are usually shown.

       machine-id, boot-id, and show may be combined with the
       --app-specific=app-id switch to generate application-specific
       IDs. See sd_id128_get_machine(3) for the discussion when this is
       useful. Support for show --app-specific= was added in version
       255.

OPTIONS         top

       The following options are understood:

       -p, --pretty
           Generate output as programming language snippets.

           Added in version 240.

       -P, --value
           Only print the value. May be combined with -u/--uuid.

           Added in version 255.

       -a app-id, --app-specific=app-id
           With this option, identifiers will be printed that are the
           result of hashing the application identifier app-id and
           another ID. The app-id argument must be a valid sd-id128
           string identifying the application. When used with
           machine-id, the other ID will be the machine ID as described
           in machine-id(5), when used with boot-id, the other ID will
           be the boot ID, and when used with show, the other ID or IDs
           should be specified via the positional arguments.

           Added in version 240.

       -u, --uuid
           Generate output as a UUID formatted in the "canonical
           representation", with five groups of digits separated by
           hyphens. See the Wikipedia entry for Universally Unique
           Identifiers[1] for more discussion.

           Added in version 244.

       --no-pager
           Do not pipe output into a pager.

       --no-legend
           Do not print the legend, i.e. column headers and the footer
           with hints.

       --json=MODE
           Shows output formatted as JSON. Expects one of "short" (for
           the shortest possible output without any redundant whitespace
           or line breaks), "pretty" (for a pretty version of the same,
           with indentation and line breaks) or "off" (to turn off JSON
           output, the default).

       -j
           Equivalent to --json=pretty if running on a terminal, and
           --json=short otherwise.

       -h, --help
           Print a short help text and exit.

       --version
           Print a short version string and exit.

EXIT STATUS         top

       On success 0 is returned, and a non-zero failure code otherwise.

EXAMPLES         top

       Example 1. Show a well-known UUID

           $ systemd-id128 show --value user-home
           773f91ef66d449b5bd83d683bf40ad16

           $ systemd-id128 show --value --uuid user-home
           773f91ef-66d4-49b5-bd83-d683bf40ad16

           $ systemd-id128 show 773f91ef-66d4-49b5-bd83-d683bf40ad16
           NAME      ID
           user-home 773f91ef66d449b5bd83d683bf40ad16

       Example 2. Generate an application-specific UUID

           $ systemd-id128 machine-id -u
           3a9d668b-4db7-4939-8a4a-5e78a03bffb7

           $ systemd-id128 new -u
           1fb8f24b-02df-458d-9659-cc8ace68e28a

           $ systemd-id128 machine-id -u -a 1fb8f24b-02df-458d-9659-cc8ace68e28a
           47b82cb1-5339-43da-b2a6-1c350aef1bd1

           $ systemd-id128 -Pu show 3a9d668b-4db7-4939-8a4a-5e78a03bffb7 \
               -a 1fb8f24b-02df-458d-9659-cc8ace68e28a
           47b82cb1-5339-43da-b2a6-1c350aef1bd1

       On a given machine with the ID
       3a9d668b-4db7-4939-8a4a-5e78a03bffb7, for the application
       1fb8f24b-02df-458d-9659-cc8ace68e28a, we generate an
       application-specific machine ID
       (47b82cb1-5339-43da-b2a6-1c350aef1bd1). If we want to later
       recreate the same calculation on a different machine, we need to
       specify both IDs explicitly as parameters to show.

SEE ALSO         top

       systemd(1), sd-id128(3), sd_id128_get_machine(3)

NOTES         top

        1. Universally Unique Identifiers
           https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier#Format

COLOPHON         top

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