Open Phaeilo opened 8 years ago
Looks redundant to me. Such things can be easily generated be the caller. It is much simpler and flexible -- caller may change UUID generation algorithm. Speaking about your example you can use the next command.
$ escrotum "$(uuidgen).png" 946de4e6-5391-443d-8fc4-71f8e761a035.png $
There is uuidgen command in util-linux package (Archlinux).
uuidgen
util-linux
Looks redundant to me. Such things can be easily generated be the caller. It is much simpler and flexible -- caller may change UUID generation algorithm. Speaking about your example you can use the next command.
There is
uuidgencommand inutil-linuxpackage (Archlinux).