cgrep command not found

Introduction

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

cgrep: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: cgrep: command not found

Solutions to cgrep: command not found

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

In Ubuntu cgrep is provided by codesearch package.

codesearch is:

Code Search is a tool for indexing and then performing regular expression searches over large bodies of source code. It is a set of command-line programs written in Go.

For background and an overview of the commands, see Regular Expression Matching with a Trigram Index: http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp4.html

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

sudo apt-get -y install codesearch

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

You can also use apt command to install codesearch.

sudo apt -y install codesearch

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

sudo aptitude install codesearch

Summary

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