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author | marcel <marcel@FreeBSD.org> | 2003-03-15 02:27:10 +0000 |
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committer | marcel <marcel@FreeBSD.org> | 2003-03-15 02:27:10 +0000 |
commit | 349ca981e1632621b7582bf5d907d6f3b359c63c (patch) | |
tree | 6c0a642c39667a086b58ff7dbc44bb6ff521fc98 /usr.bin/uuidgen/uuidgen.1 | |
parent | 74674008392c002bfc392f0dfa365d51bcd917ee (diff) | |
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Add an -o filename option to have the output written to a file.
This option is present on most uuidgen(1) implementations even
though normal file redirection can be used to achieve the same.
Submitted by: Hiten Pandya <hiten@unixdaemons.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/uuidgen/uuidgen.1')
-rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/uuidgen/uuidgen.1 | 11 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/uuidgen/uuidgen.1 b/usr.bin/uuidgen/uuidgen.1 index 58b4a59..f97c6a8 100644 --- a/usr.bin/uuidgen/uuidgen.1 +++ b/usr.bin/uuidgen/uuidgen.1 @@ -34,14 +34,15 @@ .Nm .Op Fl 1 .Op Fl n Ar count +.Op Fl o Ar filename .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Nm utility by default generates a single universally unique identifier (UUID), also known as a globally unique identifier (GUID). -The UUID is written to stdout. -The following options can be used to change the number of identifiers -and the method used: +The UUID is written to stdout by default. +The following options can be used to change the behaviour of +.Nm : .Bl -tag -width indent .It Fl 1 This option only has effect if multiple identifiers are to be generated and @@ -52,6 +53,10 @@ to not generate them in batch, but one at a time. This option controls the number of identifiers generated. By default, multiple identifiers are generated in batch. +.It Fl o +Redirect output to +.Ar filename +instead of stdout. .El .Pp Batched generation yields a dense set of identifiers in such a way that there |