ffe command not found

Introduction

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

ffe: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ffe: command not found

Solutions to ffe: command not found

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

In Ubuntu ffe is provided by ffe package.

ffe is:

Ffe has many areas of use with fixed length and CSV files. It can extract particular fields or records from a flat file, convert data from one format to another (CSV to fixed length, …), display flat file content in human readable form, etc. In addition, one input file can contain several types of records (lines) and the input file structure and output definitions are independent, meaning one output format can be used with several input files. This input file structure and output format are ‘freely’ configurable, so the output can be formatted e.g. as: fixed length, separated, tokenized, XML, SQL, …

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

sudo apt-get -y install ffe

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

You can also use apt command to install ffe.

sudo apt -y install ffe

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

sudo aptitude install ffe

Summary

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