shush command not found

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

Introduction

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

shush: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: shush: command not found

Solutions to shush: command not found

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

In Ubuntu shush is provided by shush package.

shush is:

shush was written to be a generic wrapper around cron jobs so that it can be applied to any command without having to modify it or create a custom wrapper for it. In a sense, it solves a fairly simple problem, but it also brings some powerful features making it a useful tool beyond cron jobs.

Feature highlights:

  • Multiple reports (for the output) may be defined
  • Decision to send a report (or not) is configurable based on:
    • Output content analysis (using regular expressions)
    • Command exit code
    • Size of output
    • Command execution duration
  • Support for plain text, enriched text and HTML report formatting. (The latter two allow rendering part of the output in bold.)
  • Various timeout actions such as notification and command termination
  • Locking support
  • Progress report logging via syslog
  • Automatic crontab file updating based on shush’s configuration

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

sudo apt-get -y install shush

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

You can also use apt command to install shush.

sudo apt -y install shush

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

sudo aptitude install shush

Summary

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