mkid

mkid is a CLI for generating unique IDs

Options

  -h, --help   help for mkid

SEE ALSO

• mkid completion - Generate the autocompletion script for the specified shell
• mkid docs - Print documentation
• mkid ulid - Generates a ULID
• mkid uuid - Generates a UUID of the given version

mkid completion

Generate the autocompletion script for the specified shell

Synopsis

Generate the autocompletion script for mkid for the specified shell. See each sub-command's help for details on how to use the generated script.

Options

  -h, --help   help for completion

SEE ALSO

• mkid - mkid is a CLI for generating unique IDs
• mkid completion bash - Generate the autocompletion script for bash
• mkid completion fish - Generate the autocompletion script for fish
• mkid completion powershell - Generate the autocompletion script for powershell
• mkid completion zsh - Generate the autocompletion script for zsh

mkid completion bash

Generate the autocompletion script for bash

Synopsis

Generate the autocompletion script for the bash shell.

This script depends on the 'bash-completion' package. If it is not installed already, you can install it via your OS's package manager.

To load completions in your current shell session:

source <(mkid completion bash)

To load completions for every new session, execute once:

Linux:

mkid completion bash > /etc/bash_completion.d/mkid

macOS:

mkid completion bash > $(brew --prefix)/etc/bash_completion.d/mkid

You will need to start a new shell for this setup to take effect.

mkid completion bash

Options

  -h, --help              help for bash
      --no-descriptions   disable completion descriptions

SEE ALSO

• mkid completion - Generate the autocompletion script for the specified shell

mkid completion fish

Generate the autocompletion script for fish

Synopsis

Generate the autocompletion script for the fish shell.

To load completions in your current shell session:

mkid completion fish | source

To load completions for every new session, execute once:

mkid completion fish > ~/.config/fish/completions/mkid.fish

You will need to start a new shell for this setup to take effect.

mkid completion fish [flags]

Options

  -h, --help              help for fish
      --no-descriptions   disable completion descriptions

SEE ALSO

• mkid completion - Generate the autocompletion script for the specified shell

mkid completion powershell

Generate the autocompletion script for powershell

Synopsis

Generate the autocompletion script for powershell.

To load completions in your current shell session:

mkid completion powershell | Out-String | Invoke-Expression

To load completions for every new session, add the output of the above command to your powershell profile.

mkid completion powershell [flags]

Options

  -h, --help              help for powershell
      --no-descriptions   disable completion descriptions

SEE ALSO

• mkid completion - Generate the autocompletion script for the specified shell

mkid completion zsh

Generate the autocompletion script for zsh

Synopsis

Generate the autocompletion script for the zsh shell.

If shell completion is not already enabled in your environment you will need to enable it. You can execute the following once:

echo "autoload -U compinit; compinit" >> ~/.zshrc

To load completions in your current shell session:

source <(mkid completion zsh)

To load completions for every new session, execute once:

Linux:

mkid completion zsh > "${fpath[1]}/_mkid"

macOS:

mkid completion zsh > $(brew --prefix)/share/zsh/site-functions/_mkid

You will need to start a new shell for this setup to take effect.

mkid completion zsh [flags]

Options

  -h, --help              help for zsh
      --no-descriptions   disable completion descriptions

SEE ALSO

• mkid completion - Generate the autocompletion script for the specified shell

mkid docs

Print documentation

mkid docs [flags]

Options

  -f, --format string   Output format (default "markdown")
  -h, --help            help for docs

SEE ALSO

• mkid - mkid is a CLI for generating unique IDs

mkid ulid

Generates a ULID

mkid ulid [flags]

Examples

  # Generate a ULID
  mkid ulid

Options

  -c, --count int   number of ULIDs to generate (default 1)
  -h, --help        help for ulid

SEE ALSO

• mkid - mkid is a CLI for generating unique IDs

mkid uuid

Generates a UUID of the given version

Synopsis

Generates a UUID of the given version.

The UUID is encoded in the specified base-encoding, if provided. For base-58 and base-62, a standard length of 22 is assumed. Unless the --no-pad/-P flag is provided, the UUID will be left-padded with the encoding's zero value.

mkid uuid <version> [flags]

Examples

  # Generate a UUID v4
  mkid uuid 4

  # Generate a base62-encoded UUID v7
  mkid uuid 7 -b62

  # Generate a non-padded base58-encoded UUID v4
  mkid uuid 4 -b58 -P
  
  # Generate 100 URL-safe base64-encoded UUID v4s
  mkid uuid 4 -burl64 -c100

Options

  -b, --base string   base-encoding for the UUID (58, 62, 64, url64)
  -c, --count int     number of UUIDs to generate (default 1)
  -h, --help          help for uuid
  -P, --no-pad        do not pad base-58 or base-62 encoded UUIDs with zero-values

SEE ALSO

• mkid - mkid is a CLI for generating unique IDs