decorate command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix decorate command not found error message

Introduction

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

decorate: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: decorate: command not found

Solutions to decorate: command not found

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

In Ubuntu decorate is provided by datamash package.

datamash is:

GNU Datamash is a command-line program which performs basic numeric, textual and statistical operations on input textual data files. It is designed to be portable and reliable, and aid researchers to easily automate analysis pipelines, without writing code or even short scripts.

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

sudo apt-get -y install datamash

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

You can also use apt command to install datamash.

sudo apt -y install datamash

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

sudo aptitude install datamash

Summary

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