linux uuid

一、uuid 生成

See the

uuidgen

program which is part of the e2fsprogs package.
According to this,

libuuid

is now part of util-linux and the inclusion in e2fsprogs is being phased out.
(On new Ubuntu systems,

uuidgen

is now in the

uuid-runtime

package.)
To create a uuid and save it in a variable:

uuid=$(uuidgen)

On my Ubuntu system, the alpha characters are output as lower case and on my OS X system, they are output as upper case (thanks to David for pointing this out in a comment).
To switch to all upper case (after generating it as above):

uuid=${uuid^^}

To switch to all lower case:

uuid=${uuid,,}

If, for example, you have two UUIDs and you want to compare them in Bash, ignoring their case, you can do a

tolower()

style comparison like this:

if [[ ${uuid1,,} == ${uuid2,,} ]]

2、减少对Linux依赖性的用法

To add variety without adding external dependencies, on Linux you can do:

UUID=$(cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/uuid)

To propagate bad practices, on FreeBSD, under the linux compatibility layer (linuxulator?),

UUID=$(cat /compat/linux/proc/sys/kernel/random/uuid)

References:

UUID on Wikipedia.

FreeBSD Bug #186187 - [linprocfs] [patch] emulate /proc/sys/kernel/random/uuid