From the manpage:

“xargs reads arguments from the standard input, delimited by blanks (which can be protected with double or single quotes or a backslash) or newlines, and executes the command (default is /bin/echo) […]”

This should be fixed either by making coreutils a dependency (and use @coreutils@/bin/echo), or by just calling “echo” from $PATH.

Submitted on 27 October 2005 at 17:55