write.ul command not found

Introduction

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

write.ul: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: write.ul: command not found

Solutions to write.ul: command not found

How To Fix write.ul: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu write.ul is provided by bsdextrautils package.

bsdextrautils is:

This package contains some extra BSD utilities: col, colcrt, colrm, column, hd, hexdump, look, ul and write. Other BSD utilities are provided by bsdutils and calendar.

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

sudo apt-get -y install bsdextrautils

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

You can also use apt command to install bsdextrautils.

sudo apt -y install bsdextrautils

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

sudo aptitude install bsdextrautils

Summary

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