ruuid

I couldn't find a tool that generates uuid's of various formats conveniently and programatically over the cli and rUUID was born. Necessity is the mother of "I can't find it, I'll make it".

This crate only depends on uuid and clap crates.

Usage

There are subcommands for each type of supported uuid's. Any uuid formats supported by uuid are supported by rUUID as well.

For example, to generate a UUID_V1:

bash ruuid v1

To generate a version 1 UUID with the braced format:

bash ruuid v1 -b

You can pass a number to tell ruuid how many UUIDs you want generated:

bash ruuid v1 3

The default number of UUIDs generated is 1.

The following UUIDs are supported:

• version 1
• version 3
• version 4
• version 5
• version 6
• version 7
• version 8

Version 1, 3, 5, 6 and 8 need some random bytes to be generated, namely 6 pieces of u8 (except for version 8 which needs 16 u8s). These are generated with the help of the rand crate. Honestly I have no ideas whether is sufficient, if it's not, let me know.

Version 3 and 5 implicitly use the DNS namespace. I don't know whether it would be preferable to have that configurable. It's static for know. If you'd like that changed, let me know.