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Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2026 00:35:16 UTC
The branch stable/14 has been updated by ziaee:
URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=e3009524178c73831495bb97b4c284b69b0916e8
commit e3009524178c73831495bb97b4c284b69b0916e8
Author: Fernando ApesteguĂa <fernape@FreeBSD.org>
AuthorDate: 2023-09-07 15:17:38 +0000
Commit: Alexander Ziaee <ziaee@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2026-02-06 00:34:36 +0000
uuidgen(1): Add EXAMPLES to manual page
Approved by: manpages@ (gbe@)
Reviewed by: gbe@, pauamma
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D43494
(cherry picked from commit 6e74b603fc021761c0a20e08f58b674f45ad5f04)
---
bin/uuidgen/uuidgen.1 | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 24 insertions(+)
diff --git a/bin/uuidgen/uuidgen.1 b/bin/uuidgen/uuidgen.1
index 51475c900bbc..1c2e7cce91d3 100644
--- a/bin/uuidgen/uuidgen.1
+++ b/bin/uuidgen/uuidgen.1
@@ -77,6 +77,30 @@ to each other, but operating system latency and processing time will be
reflected in the distance between two successive identifiers.
.Sh EXIT STATUS
.Ex -std
+.Sh EXAMPLES
+Generate a batch of three UUIDs.
+Notice the similarity of the string before the first hyphen of the UUID
+(known as
+.Em time_low
+in
+.Em rfc4122
+):
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+$ uuidgen -n3
+8bc44345-4d90-11ee-88c7-b42e991fc52e
+8bc44346-4d90-11ee-88c7-b42e991fc52e
+8bc44347-4d90-11ee-88c7-b42e991fc52e
+.Ed
+.Pp
+Generate a batch of random UUIDs without hyphens:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+$ uuidgen -r -c -n3
+5ad8b60a0f4e41f59c82d273202275f9
+6c41925486cd4bf59720a5bad85de2e4
+8144fdab63f648a1812d12453f975313
+.Ed
+.Pp
+Notice that the UUIDs are not similar to each other.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr uuidgen 2 ,
.Xr uuid 3