shjs command not found

Introduction

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

shjs: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: shjs: command not found

Solutions to shjs: command not found

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

In Ubuntu shjs is provided by node-shelljs package.

node-shelljs is:

ShellJS is a portable (Windows/Linux/OS X) implementation of Unix shell commands on top of the Node.js API. You can use it to eliminate your shell script’s dependency on Unix while still keeping its familiar and powerful commands. You can also install it globally so you can run it from outside Node projects - say goodbye to those gnarly Bash scripts!

Node.js is an event-based server-side JavaScript engine.

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

sudo apt-get -y install node-shelljs

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

You can also use apt command to install node-shelljs.

sudo apt -y install node-shelljs

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

sudo aptitude install node-shelljs

Summary

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