delay command not found

Introduction

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

delay: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: delay: command not found

Solutions to delay: command not found

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

In Ubuntu delay is provided by delay package.

delay is:

delay introduces a constant delay between its standard input and its standard output. The data from its stdin will be stored until it has been written to stdout.

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

sudo apt-get -y install delay

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

You can also use apt command to install delay.

sudo apt -y install delay

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

sudo aptitude install delay

Summary

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