fdfind command not found
Introduction
When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message
fdfind: command not found
or when using sudo you get the following error message
sudo: fdfind: command not found
Solutions to fdfind: command not found
How To Fix fdfind: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian
In Ubuntu fdfind is provided by fd-find package.
fd-find is:
While it does not seek to mirror all of find’s powerful functionality, fd provides sensible (opinionated) defaults for 80% of the use cases.
Features:
- Convenient syntax: ‘fd PATTERN’ instead of ‘find -iname ‘PATTERN’’.
- Colorized terminal output (similar to ls).
- It’s fast, often faster than find.
- Smart case.
- Ignores hidden directories and files, by default.
- Ignores patterns from your .gitignore, by default.
- Regular expressions.
- Unicode-awareness.
- Parallel command execution with a syntax similar to GNU Parallel.
Please note: the executable and the associated manpage were renamed from ‘fd’ to ‘fdfind’ because of a file name clash.
To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.
sudo apt-get -y install fd-find
This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.
You can also use apt command to install fd-find.
sudo apt -y install fd-find
Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.
sudo aptitude install fd-find
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to fix fdfind command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.