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+.\" Copyright 1999 Andreas Dilger (adilger@enel.ucalgary.ca)
+.\"
+.\" This man page was created for libuuid.so.1.1 from e2fsprogs-1.14.
+.\"
+.\" This file may be copied under the terms of the GNU Public License.
+.\"
+.\" Created  Wed Mar 10 17:42:12 1999, Andreas Dilger
+.TH UUIDGEN 1 "June 2011" "util-linux" "User Commands"
+.SH NAME
+uuidgen \- create a new UUID value
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B uuidgen
+[\fIoptions\fR]
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+The
+.B uuidgen
+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,
+and among UUIDs created on other systems in the past
+and in the future.
+.PP
+There are two types of UUIDs which
+.B uuidgen
+can generate: time-based UUIDs and random-based UUIDs.  By default
+.B uuidgen
+will generate a random-based UUID if a high-quality random number
+generator is present.  Otherwise, it will choose a time-based UUID.
+It is possible to force the generation of one of these two
+UUID types by using the
+.B \-r
+or
+.B \-t
+options.
+.SH OPTIONS
+.TP
+.BR \-r , " \-\-random"
+Generate a random-based UUID.  This method creates a UUID consisting mostly
+of random bits.  It requires that the operating system have a high
+quality random number generator, such as
+.IR /dev/random .
+.TP
+.BR \-t , " \-\-time"
+Generate a time-based UUID.  This method creates a UUID based on the system
+clock plus the system's ethernet hardware address, if present.
+.TP
+.BR \-h , " \-\-help"
+Display help text and exit.
+.TP
+.BR \-V , " \-\-version"
+Display version information and exit.
+.SH "CONFORMING TO"
+OSF DCE 1.1
+.SH AUTHOR
+.B uuidgen
+was written by Andreas Dilger for libuuid.
+.SH AVAILABILITY
+The uuidgen command is part of the util-linux package and is available from
+ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.BR libuuid (3)