From 3b302c2c0b7357321adc1343d7e46b032b7b6383 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Theodore Ts'o Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 21:46:19 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Fix typo and clarify the uuidgen man page Thanks to Matt Kraai for noticing the misplaced sentence inserted into the description section. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" --- misc/uuidgen.1.in | 7 ++----- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/misc/uuidgen.1.in b/misc/uuidgen.1.in index 241b42e5..985e80d7 100644 --- a/misc/uuidgen.1.in +++ b/misc/uuidgen.1.in @@ -18,7 +18,8 @@ uuidgen \- command\-line utility to create a new UUID value .SH DESCRIPTION The .B uuidgen -program creates a new universally unique identifier (UUID) using the +program creates (and prints) +a new universally unique identifier (UUID) using the .BR libuuid (3) library. The new UUID can reasonably be considered unique among all UUIDs created on the local system, @@ -34,10 +35,6 @@ will generate a random-based UUID if a high-quality random number generator is present. Otherwise, it will chose a time-based UUID. It is possible to force the generation of one of these two UUID types by using the -.PP -A UUID of the form 1b4e28ba-2fa1-11d2-883f-b9a761bde3fb (in -.BR printf (3) -format "%08x-%04x-%04x-%04x-%012x") is output to the standard output. .B \-r or .B \-t -- 2.11.0