Here’s how you can list the UIDs for all objects whose name contain the text ‘echo’.
This is using the management CLI and jq utility.
[Expert@r80_20_ga:0]# mgmt_cli show objects filter echo -s id.txt -f json | jq '.objects[] | [.name , .uid, .type] | @csv ' -r
"echo","97aeb46a-9aea-11d5-bd16-0090272ccb30","service-group"
"Echo","00fa9e3c-b2f4-0f65-e053-08241dc22da2","application-site"
"echo-reply","97aeb406-9aea-11d5-bd16-0090272ccb30","service-icmp"
"echo-reply6","ac85a522-916a-4ce0-8411-32d1d0016348","service-icmp6"
"echo-request","97aeb40a-9aea-11d5-bd16-0090272ccb30","service-icmp"
"echo-request6","cecf9574-01e7-4125-b9c4-f26f50c66f73","service-icmp6"
"echo-tcp","97aeb3f7-9aea-11d5-bd16-0090272ccb30","service-tcp"
"echo-udp","97aeb3f8-9aea-11d5-bd16-0090272ccb30","service-udp"
"Echopic","00fa9e3c-b2b1-0f65-e053-08241dc22da2","application-site"
"EchoSign","00fa9e44-3e01-0f65-e053-08241dc22da2","application-site"
"EchoSign-upload","06df9e86-c034-657d-e053-08241dc2b9e0","application-site"
"Echoware","00fa9e41-f9ba-0f65-e053-08241dc22da2","application-site"