Command Not Found in Bash Fixed | Linux Today

Command Not Found in Bash Fixed

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Nov 7, 2019

Every system administrator got this error at least one time in a shell : bash : command not found. However, you were pretty sure that you wrote the command correctly, or that you installed the tool that you are actually trying to execute. So why are you getting this error? The ???bash : command not found??? error can happen for various reasons when running commands in a Bash terminal.

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