runawk command not found

Introduction

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

runawk: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: runawk: command not found

Solutions to runawk: command not found

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

In Ubuntu runawk is provided by runawk package.

runawk is:

RunAWK is a small wrapper for AWK interpreter that implements module system (similar to Perl’s “use” command) and helps in writing standalone AWK programs.

This package also provides about a dozen of modules implementing most common string, array and system function.

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

sudo apt-get -y install runawk

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

You can also use apt command to install runawk.

sudo apt -y install runawk

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

sudo aptitude install runawk

Summary

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