xargs command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

xargs: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: xargs: command not found

Solutions to xargs: command not found

How To Fix xargs: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu xargs is provided by findutils package.

findutils is:

GNU findutils provides utilities to find files meeting specified criteria and perform various actions on the files which are found. This package contains ‘find’ and ‘xargs’; however, ’locate’ has been split off into a separate package.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install findutils

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install findutils.

sudo apt -y install findutils

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install findutils

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix xargs command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.