I often have need of a unique id. Usually, it's when I'm manually adding a record to a source that doesn't automatically generate a unique id in some way. So, I wanted a quick and easy way to get a unique id that I could paste wherever I need it.
I threw this together to do just that. It generates a unique id using uniqid and copies it to the clipboard using clipboardy.
I only need it on my Mac, but I think it will work on any system running NodeJS. You might have to tweak the shebang line in index.js if your node doesn't run from #!/usr/bin/env node.
npm i -g mcasto/gen-id
or
yarn global add mcasto/gen-id
There's nothing fancy about this :D
From the command line, run gen-id
The unique id string will be copied to your clipboard, and you can paste it wherever you need it.