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bug #66591: default command of xargs in texinfo documentation

Submitter:  toomas <toomas>
Submitted:  Sat 21 Dec 2024 02:16:38 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  documentation Severity:  3 - Normal
Item Group:  None Status:  Fixed
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  berny
Originator Name:  Open/Closed:  Open
Release:  4.10.0 Fixed Release:  4.11.0
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Sun 05 Jan 2025 09:42:22 PM UTC, comment #2: 

P.S. The usage output from 'xargs --help' had it wrong;
I fixed it (and also added a sentence about the default COMMAND):

-Usage: xargs [OPTION]... COMMAND [INITIAL-ARGS]...
+Usage: xargs/xargs [OPTION]... [COMMAND [INITIAL-ARGS]...]

Pushed at:
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/findutils.git/commit/?id=0c20228608af66c9a4d175bcada031828c213b38

Bernhard Voelker <berny>
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Sun 05 Jan 2025 09:02:07 PM UTC, comment #1: 
Bernhard Voelker <berny>
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Sat 21 Dec 2024 02:16:38 PM UTC, original submission:  

Hello,

The default command for xargs is `echo'. The xargs man page states this in the first paragraph of the `DESCRIPTION' section.  But to find the same piece of information in the Info documentation for findutils, the user has to navigate to Top → Actions → Run Commands → Multiple Files!  This is hardly where a naïve user is likely to search for this; a more natural place would be Top → Reference → Invoking xargs, or one of its sub-nodes.

Greetings,
T.

toomas <toomas>

 

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    Date Changed by Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced by
    2025-01-05 berny StatusNone Fixed
        Assigned toNone berny
        Fixed ReleaseNone 4.11.0
    2025-01-05 berny Categoryxargs documentation

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