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by kelnos 2194 days ago
Yeah, I'm just really confused. If you're at a CLI, you probably have uuidgen. And I'd assume there's something similar on Windows.

If you're writing some kind of application, pretty much every language/framework can generate UUIDs, and even if yours doesn't, just generate a 128-bit number, stamp the v4 UUID bits into it, reformat it, and you're done. Calling out to a 3rd-party service is insane for that use case anyway.

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> Yeah, I'm just really confused. If you're at a CLI, you probably have uuidgen. And I'd assume there's something similar on Windows.

uuidgen is provided by the Windows SDK - exactly the same usage than in *nix