bioawk command not found

Introduction

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

bioawk: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: bioawk: command not found

Solutions to bioawk: command not found

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

In Ubuntu bioawk is provided by bioawk package.

bioawk is:

Bioawk is an extension to Brian Kernighan’s awk, adding the support of several common biological data formats, including optionally gzip’ed BED, GFF, SAM, VCF, FASTA/Q and TAB-delimited formats with column names. It also adds a few built-in functions and an command line option to use TAB as the input/output delimiter. When the new functionality is not used, bioawk is intended to behave exactly the same as the original BWK awk.

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

sudo apt-get -y install bioawk

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

You can also use apt command to install bioawk.

sudo apt -y install bioawk

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

sudo aptitude install bioawk

Summary

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