Commandline UUID generator

Generate fresh UUIDs with versions 1, 3, 4, 5, 6 or 7 with ease

Prerequisites

1. Git hsa been installed and is available on the PATH, verify with git --version
2. Go has been installed and is available on the PATH, verify with go version
3. The go binary directory has been added to the PATH, should be something like $HOME/go/bin

If the above list is succesfully and positively verified, then you can start with

Installation

First clone this repo, or fork and the clone the fork locally:

git clone https://github.com/jvorhauer/nuuid.git

Then run

go build

and

go install

This will have installed the uuid executable program in the go bin directory! Now, go celebrate and generate some nice UUIDs!

Usage

Name of the executable is uuid, the only parameter to be passed is the version of UUID you would like to generate:

uuid --version N

where N can be 1, 3, 4, 5, 6 or 7

Feedback

Love some feedback! Leave constructive critisism, feature requests and bug reports in the {GitHub Issues}(https://github.com/jvorhauer/nuuid/issues) part of this project.

Happy generating!