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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" <tytso@mit.edu>
bitmap-optimize
Theodore Ts'o 2007-08-20 21:46:19 -04:00
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@ -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