bomstrip command not found

Introduction

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

bomstrip: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: bomstrip: command not found

Solutions to bomstrip: command not found

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

In Ubuntu bomstrip is provided by bomstrip package.

bomstrip is:

Bomstrip is a very simple tool that removes BOM’s (byte-order-marks) from UTF-8 files. UTF-8 does not have byte-ordering issues, so there is absolutely no need to have three bytes (the UTF-8-BOM) that do not say anything about the byte-order (since there is nothing to say).

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

sudo apt-get -y install bomstrip

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

You can also use apt command to install bomstrip.

sudo apt -y install bomstrip

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

sudo aptitude install bomstrip

Summary

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