sed command not found

Introduction

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

sed: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: sed: command not found

Solutions to sed: command not found

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

In Ubuntu sed is provided by sed package.

sed is:

sed reads the specified files or the standard input if no files are specified, makes editing changes according to a list of commands, and writes the results to the standard output.

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

sudo apt-get -y install sed

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

You can also use apt command to install sed.

sudo apt -y install sed

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

sudo aptitude install sed

Summary

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