Why I am getting the error Command not found? How do I fix this problem?
A common question asked by new Linux or UNIX users. When you get the error “Command not found” it means that Linux or UNIX searched for command everywhere it knew to look and could not find a program by that name. Another cause is you misspelled the command name (typo) or administrator does not at all install the command on your Linux/UNIX based system. To get rid of this error try the following suggestions:
Make sure command was not misspelled
All Linux and UNIX commands are case sensitive and you need to type correct spelling of command.
Make sure command is your path
You can see current search path with following command:
$ echo $PATH
Sample outputs:
/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/home/vivekgite/bin
Usually, all user commands are in /bin and /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin directories. All your programs are installed in these directories. When you type the clear command, you are running /usr/bin/clear. So if it is not in your path try to add directories to your search path as follows (setup Linux or UNIX search path with following bash export command):
$ export PATH=$PATH:/bin:/usr/local/bin
You can also find out of path of any command with which or whereis commands:
$ which ls
/bin/ls
$ which gcc
/usr/bin/gcc
$ which date
/bin/date
$ which cal
/usr/bin/cal
$ whereis gcc
/usr/bin/gcc
You can run a program using its full pathname as follows:
$ /bin/ls $ /bin/date
Finally, sometime you may not have permission to run the command.
Example
Let’s assume the program you want to execute is called “cal” and you get a “Command not found” message from Unix or Linux. First, type the following command to see if you get a path name:
$ whereis cal
Sample outputs:
cal: /usr/bin/cal /usr/share/man/man1/cal.1.gz
If you do, you can invoke it using a full path name (e.g. /usr/bin/cal):
$ /usr/bin/cal
Sample outputs:
September 2012
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
1
2 3 4 5 6 7 8
9 10 11 12 13 14 15
16 17 18 19 20 21 22
23 24 25 26 27 28 29
30
Or You can add the path to your PATH variable in your shell start-up file $HOME/.cshrc (csh/tcsh) or $HOME/.bashrc (bash) file, then “source” the file:
$ vi $HOME/.bashrc
Add the path as follows:
PATH=$PATH:/home/vivek/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games export PATH
Save and close the file. Run the following command:
$ source ~/.bashrc
$ echo $PATH
$ cal
Finally, you can use the following command to search for cal command get a hit about its location.
$ find / -name cal -print
Then, invoke it using a full path name or add it to your PATH variable in your shell startup file.
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Hi,I have a problem when I run the command under Cygwin.
I type
./run.bash
However,it shows:
:command not found
‘/run.bash: line 6: Syntax error near unexpected token ‘
‘/run.bash: line 6: ‘function gplot’
All this code was definitely right, that’s our teacher who give to us..
So what’s the problem?
Thank you
Line 6 has an error. Can you just copy and paste your source code here. Put in
<code>your script code…</code>
tags, so that I can help you further.
the command ‘setup’ is not working, it says command not found although there is a man page for that command…can u help me how to make it work or is there any alternate command for the above??
Hi
I have a bash script say “simulate”.
When i type simulate on cmd prompt, it says
command not found. but when i type
./simulate it works.
What can be reason. i checked PATH, /bin is there.
Which bash says /bin/bash.
regards
Sandeep
Sandeep,
Add your home directory to PATH
export PATH=$PATH:/home/you
Thank you so much!
I was having this same problem.
Hi configure command is not there in my bin folder. So this command is not executing. Pls help me that what i have to do to run this command?
If the $PATH variable is correct a fully qualified path works, try typing “rehash” at the command prompt to update the systems list of valid commands.
the man command is not working
it gives comand not found error.
i get an error as ‘Command not found’ when i use zgrep. can any one help me on this. any command to grep through zip files(i need the filename as output)
hi guys!
i’m new to ns2..could someone please tell me why i keep having “command not found” error messages as follows. What should i doooo??? HELP
zaid@ymax-hw-0006:~/Desktop/ns-allinone-2.32/ns-2.32$ testing.tcl
/home/zaid/Desktop/ns-allinone-2.32/ns-2.32/testing.tcl: line 4: namtrace-all: command not found
/home/zaid/Desktop/ns-allinone-2.32/ns-2.32/testing.tcl: line 6: proc: command not found
/home/zaid/Desktop/ns-allinone-2.32/ns-2.32/testing.tcl: line 7: global: command not found
/home/zaid/Desktop/ns-allinone-2.32/ns-2.32/testing.tcl: line 8: flush-trace: command not found
/home/zaid/Desktop/ns-allinone-2.32/ns-2.32/testing.tcl: line 9: close: command not found
zaid@ymax-hw-0006:~/Desktop/ns-allinone-2.32/ns-2.32$ Cannot connect to existing nam instance. Starting a new one…
nam: Unable to open the file “out.nam.nam”
Help me
I have a samba server configuration , and when I will start it, it show me this post of error
/bin/bash: smbd: command not found
And I don´t know what i have to do for fix it
hi
when i used the echo command
its showing command not found
and i dnt know how to fix
plz help me
my Linux Fedora 6 was hacked by some one who change the rights of root and give himself all right
now i can enter with root but when i want to execute command always get this message ‘commang not found’
what can i do to take back my root right please?
This is very very easy and useful. *** V V Good ***
Hi,
I want to execute sas program through unix script.
I tried to execute simple program through script.below is the script:
#/bin/ksh
cd //SASDATA/cz/cp151/Macros
sas a.sas
However, I could not execute it.I get following message:
sh test.sh
test.sh: sas: not found
Please guide me .
Dear friendz,
When i open terminal in ubuntu linx,it showing me::::; desktop:command not found
I have installed successfull the ns2 .Tclscripts can’t be compiled,morover,uptil now(because i have just tried very simple & small programes) “puts” command is not working.It is saying- command not found.I have installed cygwin in g drive.I am opening the prompt from desktop shortkut & entering the directory by-
$ cd c:
$ cd cygwin
$ set a “5”
$ puts a
bash: puts: command not found
also i was trying to find whereis “puts command” i found the location but i dont know how to handle the problem .
puts: usr/share/man/man3/puts.3.gz
Thanks in advance……….
Hi Vivek,
I want to know the path for command “export”, command “set”
when I am doing
[root@test usr]# /usr/bin/which export
/usr/bin/which: no export in (/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/root/bin)
can you please help me on this?
Cheers,
Sameer
Hi,
I ran into a “make: arm_v5t_le-gcc: command not found” with “make” facility while I was doing compile a program.
I ran this compiling with arm_v5t_le-gcc full path, I got the same error.
I checked the $PATH, and the the arm_v5t_le-gcc is in there.
I checked with “locate”, and the arm_v5t_le-gcc is there.
I checked with “which”, and the arm_v5t_le-gcc is there.
I checked the permission, and the arm_v5t_le-gcc is 755.
What else may cause this “command not found” error? Any guys can help me?
Thank you very much!
Cheer,
Justin
For the newbies if possible
which is in Base and Utils but whereis I can’t find in Cygwin
thx mate,
I had terrible bugs because I named a variable PATH
find … | while read
PATH=subtr.
thanks
export PATH……………
worked
it worked! thanks! very useful
hey there I am using backtrack4 in windows 7 my graphics card is atı hd 5650
when ı command this :
airodump-ng -w captura -c 11 — bssid 00:3e:d7:65:e2:87 wlan0
I GET ALLWAYS SAME ERROR
bash: 3e: command not found
note :I can see all of wifi/wlan etc.
do you happen to know where to look for that specific message “command not found” in centos? I’d like to chnage it to something else but am not able to locate it anywhere… have found it in other distros like ubuntu/debian – they have it in /etc/bash.bashrc and they even have such package by name command-not-found… and I was able to replace it with desired content… so, is there a way to perform the same on centos?
oldmodes is the users: command not found
I am using cygwin and when i compile program hello.cc
by command gcc hello.cc -o hello
it shows installation problem,cannot exec ‘cc’plus’:No such file or directory
but when i execute program with command ./hello.exe
it shows output
how should i remove this problem plz tell me.
Hi . I am using Red hat E 4 and i am working bops simulator.
after compile makefile , bops exe is producted and existed.
but by input command :bops test
Error is : bops :not command found.
thanks.
hi, I have installed ns2 simulator in fedora5.The installation happened perfectly,
but when i start opening ns,I am geeting error as command not found
$ns
$nam
error :command not found
please help me if i need to set any variables
i dont get vi editor screen.whan i type “vi file name” i get the answer as command not found.i will be in /bin/bash. how did i over this problem.
try vi filename.sh
Thank you so much!!
while using proc command in cygwin its displaying
bash:proc -command not found
can you please help me on this?
Hi,
I just found this thread through Google.
My situation was similar, but the resolution was simple and different. It wasn’t related to the code at all.
I was on my Windows 7 machine connecting to my UNIX server through Notepad++ using the FTP plugin.
I was getting the same error mentioned here –
} ./test_script.sh
./test_script.sh: Command not found.
After looking at the initial things I was like “Doh!” and I checked the Notepad++ -> Edit Menu -> EOL Converstion settings and of course it was set to Windows and not UNIX.
After I set it to UNIX and uploaded the latest copy, the program executed without problems.
Just thought I’d note that here in case people have the same issue.
Peace,
Justin
Thank you. I had some issue similar to yours and this helped me :)
hi, I have installed ns2 simulator in fedora5.The installation happened perfectly,
but when i start opening ns,I am geeting error as command not found
$ns
$nam
error :command not found
please help me if i need to set any variables
How to resolve it…. IBM AIX 5.3….. Please help..
hi
i want to check whether the unzip command has worked properly.. i mean to say whether unzip have unzipped all the file or folders correctly in an another folder..based on that i have to send notification….i think there is some option called $? where i can check in the particular folder ..if it is suceesful, i will get value 1..i am not sure..please let me know…
hi,
i m getting error as bash : command not found while compilation c programming can you tel me how to get rid of it.
This happens under Cygwin. You find yourself using two editors, one in Window$ and one in LInux. What happens is you get DOS cr/lfs (^M) in the file and these create all sorts of havoc in the bash command stream.
The only way out is to keep the streams separate.
Hi everybody,
I have installed ns2 and cygwin in windows 7. it works. but I faced one problem. when I want to run tcl and write ns simple.tcl it shows -bash: ns: command not found…..kindly solve my problem.waiting for your reply………
sir
i have installed ns2 suhan it gives errorcessfully but when i run a programme
it gives error
couldn’t read file “namtrace-all”: no such file or directory
my prograame is
set ns [new Simulator]
set nf [open out.nam w]
$ns namtrace-all $nf
proc finish {} {
global ns nf
$ns flush-trace
close $nf
exec nam out.nam &
exit 0 }
set n1 [$ns node]
set n2 [$ns node]
$ns duplex-link $n1 $n2 1Mb 10ms DropTail
$ns at 5.0 “finish”
$ns run
hi frnds,
yum server installing step the createreppo, command not fount &-bash this command not fount what’s the prblm? wt 2 to 4 that one?
another reason scripts can fail is because the line ending is DOS instead of UNIX. i am guessing that this is because the first line that specifies the interpreters name will see the extra linefeed. this can happen if you used any windows-based line editing app… even vi on unix will continue in DOS mode if it finds a linefeed anywhere in the file, so just editing with vi is not enough to convert the file.
try running the dos2unix command on your script to rewrite the script without linefeeds.
Needed dos2unix, that had been my problem – but I see that’s already been mentioned here! It seems I get better error messages as root
[root@xxx bin]# ./productionScript.sh
-bash: ./productionScript.sh: /bin/sh^M: bad interpreter: No such file or directory
[root@xxx bin]# su yyy
xxx:yyy 1> ./productionScript.sh
./productionScript.sh: Command not found.
bash : ls: command not found in linux to chnge the directories or to opening the vi editor
Thank you very much! Setting the variable path works!
why these are command not found in the binutils-build?
–prefix=/tools
–with-sysroot=$LFS
–with-lib-path=/tools/lib
–target=$LFS_TGT
–disable-nls
–disable-werror
i installed nasm . now when i assemble in terminal ,it produces the .o file but when i write the command for linking, ld -o str str.o , it says bash: ld: command not found… what’s wrong?
I have created a simple script in a file and stored at location (/home/mint).I have changed the file permission to 755 to make it executable.However when i type file name on terminal it shows me that “Command not found”. Here is the solution:
1) File name program1.sh
#!/bin/sh -x
ls -l
2)Stored at location /home/mint
3)make it executable
$chmod 755 program1.sh
4)PWD
/home/mint
5)add the location of file in the PATH variable
$export PATH=$PATH:/home/mint
6)ls command should be in the path as per $PATH variable value.
you could checke for ls command in /bin,/user/bin etc
7)$program1.sh
type and hit enter it should work.
This is my first script so If I am not wrong, program1.sh is a command itself to unix after making it executable.So it is searching this file in the $PATH if it is not there then there is a error.”Command not found”
hey i get this as i open terminal
“ns-allinone-: command not found”
also i cannot run tcl file.
What is the solution?
I installes the ns-2.35 in fedora 15. i dont have problem in running ns but still i cant run nam. It shows bash: nam:command not found. i set the environment path too. but still i get this error.
i am trying to compile on linux server and i am getting the following error :
./compile[94]: /usr/bin/gcc: not found [No such file or directory]
Please help me in this error
Can you tell me why `which cd` command doesn’t print anything on the screen ? I had read some where over the internet and i forgot. Can you please give information on this ?
@Raghavendra, you need to install GCC on that linux machine.
If you are using CentOS/RHEL/Fedora you follw this command
#yum install gcc
For Debian/Ubuntu
#apt-get install gcc
I am using Ubuntu 14. I want to use arm tool chain to compile my code. My tool chain is in
# /home/raj/el/arm/bin/
Now i added this path using export and path variable as follow :
# export PATH=/home/raj/el/arm/bin/:$PATH
Now I want to compile my code with arm gcc compiler but it through error by saying that
No such file or directory but when i am using
# which arm-gcc
it is showing path..
I dnt understand why is this error. I am not able to cross-compile my code for arm target.
I can help , I have installed Fedora 21 from Friday and I could not log in, and try to start again and show me the login screen , and does not show me any errors, income and command line appears:
-bash: id: command not found
bash: ls: command not found…
Similar command is: ‘lz’
bash: tty: command not found…
Similar command is: ‘tty’
bash: grep: command not found…
Hi,
thank you
Gcc not found error is accure ….what i do for Debian system
Hi All,
i have below script for History & sos backup. its working fine in RHEL5.8 and i have configured new server RHEL6.6, when i try to run this script i am getting an error message “ls: cannot access /root/new/2016/June: No such file or directory”
#!/bin/bash dPATH="/root/new" # Configure the backup directory path here # tDate="$(date +"%d-%m-%y_%H-%M")" tYEAR="$(date +"%Y")" tMONTH="$(date +"%B")" tDAY="$(date +"%d")" tTIME="$(date +"%H-%M")" tmpPATH="/tmp" gdFTIME="$(date +'%d%b%Y')" dCHECK="$dPATH/$tYEAR/$tMONTH/$gdFTIME" dFIND="$(ls $dPATH/$tYEAR/$tMONTH | grep $gdFTIME*)" hFile="$(find /home -name .bash_history)" hFileUser="$(find /home -name .bash_history | awk -F'/' '{print $3}')" gtHSTNAME="$(hostname)" OwnFolder="" if [ "$dFIND" != "" ]; then for dP in $dFIND do mkdir -p $dPATH/$tYEAR/$tMONTH/$dP/History_backup-$gdFTIME >> $tmpPATH/History_backup$tDate.log OwnFolder="$dPATH/$tYEAR/$tMONTH/$dP/" dName="$dPATH/$tYEAR/$tMONTH/$dP/History_backup-$gdFTIME" sosName="$dPATH/$tYEAR/$tMONTH/$dP/SOSReport-$gdFTIME" mkdir -p $sosName >> $tmpPATH/History_backup$tDate.log /usr/sbin/sosreport --tmp-dir $sosName/ --batch -n emc echo "SOS Report has been created and placed" >> $tmpPATH/History_backup$tDate.log for i in $hFileUser do n="/home/$i/.bash_history" cd $dName cp $n $i-history-$tDate.txt echo "$i: $n Copied..." >> $tmpPATH/History_backup$tDate.log tar -czf $i-history-$tDate.tar.gz $dName/$i-history-$tDate.txt echo "$n archived..." >> $tmpPATH/History_backup$tDate.log rm -rf $i-history-$tDate.txt echo "$i-history-$tDate.txt deleted..." >> $tmpPATH/History_backup$tDate.log ## Cronjob Backup ## getCJList=( dgcx root ) cd $dName for cj in ${getCJList[@]} do if [ "$cj" != "" ]; then echo "Creating File : $dName/crontab-$cj-$gtHSTNAME-$tDate.txt..." >> $tmpPATH/History_backup$tDate.log touch crontab-$cj-$gtHSTNAME-$tDate.txt echo "$(crontab -lu $cj)" > crontab-$cj-$gtHSTNAME-$tDate.txt echo "Archiving File : $dName/crontab-$cj-$gtHSTNAME-$tDate.txt..." >> $tmpPATH/History_backup$tDate.log tar -czf crontab-$cj-$gtHSTNAME-$tDate.tar.gz crontab-$cj-$gtHSTNAME-$tDate.txt echo "Removing File : $dName/crontab-$cj-$gtHSTNAME-$tDate.txt..." >> $tmpPATH/History_backup$tDate.log rm -rf crontab-$cj-$gtHSTNAME-$tDate.txt else echo "User $cj doesn't have cronjobs : IGNORE" >> $tmpPATH/History_backup$tDate.log fi done done done cd $dName cp /root/.bash_history $dName/root-history-$tDate.txt tar -czf root-history-$tDate.tar.gz root-history-$tDate.txt rm -rf root-history-$tDate.txt chown user.user $OwnFolder -R fiIam seeing double entries:
[radha@ip-172-31-10-140 ~]$ $PATH
bash: /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/opt/aws/bin:/bin:/home/radha/apache-hive-2.0.0-bin/bin:/home/radha/hadoop-2.6.0/bin:/opt/aws/bin:/home/radha/hadoop-2.6.0/bin:/home/radha/apache-hive-2.0.0-bin/bin:/home/radha/hadoop-2.6.0/bin:/bin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/aws/bin:/home/radha/hadoop-2.6.0/bin:/home/radha/apache-hive-2.0.0-bin/bin:/home/radha/jdk1.8.0_77/bin:/home/radha/hadoop-2.6.0/bin:/opt/aws/bin:/home/radha/hadoop-2.6.0/bin:/home/radha/apache-hive-2.0.0-bin/bin:/home/radha/jdk1.8.0_77/bin:/home/radha/hadoop-2.6.0/bin: No such file or directory
vi .bashrc
I have added the below entries in bashrc file:
# User specific aliases and functions
export JAVA_HOME=$HOME/jdk1.8.0_77
export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin
export HADOOP_HOME=$HOME/hadoop-2.6.0
export PATH=$PATH:$HADOOP_HOME/bin