[bug #66591] default command of xargs in texinfo documentation

toomas <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.findutils.bugs
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                 Summary: default command of xargs in texinfo documentation
                   Group: findutils
               Submitter: toomas
               Submitted: Sat 21 Dec 2024 02:16:38 PM UTC
                Category: xargs
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 4.10.0
           Fixed Release: None


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Date: Sat 21 Dec 2024 02:16:38 PM UTC By: toomas <toomas>
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.








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