minify command not found

Introduction

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

minify: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: minify: command not found

Solutions to minify: command not found

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

In Ubuntu minify is provided by minify package.

minify is:

/usr/bin/minify is a CLI implementation of the github.com/tdewolff/minify Go library package.

It provides HTML5, CSS3, JS, JSON, SVG and XML minifiers.

Minification is the process of removing bytes from a file (such as whitespace) without changing its output and therefore shrinking its size and speeding up transmission over the Internet and possibly parsing. The implemented minifiers are high performance and streaming, which implies O(n).

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

sudo apt-get -y install minify

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

You can also use apt command to install minify.

sudo apt -y install minify

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

sudo aptitude install minify

Summary

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