LibUUID ======= [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/CurtTilmes/perl6-libuuid.svg)](https://travis-ci.org/CurtTilmes/perl6-libuuid) Perl 6 bindings for [libuuid](https://libuuid.sourceforge.io/). This library creates Universally Unique IDentifiers (UUID). The uuid will be generated based on high-quality randomness from /dev/urandom, if available. If it is not available, then it will use an alternative algorithm which uses the current time, the local ethernet MAC address (if available), and random data generated using a pseudo-random generator. Installation ============ This module depends on [libuuid](https://libuuid.sourceforge.io/), so it must be installed first. For Linux ubuntu, try `sudo apt-get install uuid-dev`. On Mac you can get hold of it via `brew install ossp-uuid` Then install this module with `zef install LibUUID`. Usage ===== use LibUUID; my $uuid = UUID.new; # Create a new UUID $uuid = UUID.new($myblob); # From existing blob of 16 bytes $uuid = UUID.new('39ed750e-a1bf-4792-81d6-e098f01152d3'); # From Str say ~$uuid; # Stringify to hex digits with dashes say $uuid.Blob; # Blobify to Blob of 16 bytes See Also ======== [UUID](https://github.com/retupmoca/P6-UUID) is a Perl 6 native UUID generator which generates UUIDs from Perl's internal random number generator. On Linux machines, you can get UUIDs straight from the kernel: cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/uuid