xml_grep command not found

Introduction

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

xml_grep: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: xml_grep: command not found

Solutions to xml_grep: command not found

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

In Ubuntu xml_grep is provided by xml-twig-tools package.

xml-twig-tools is:

These tools are included:

• xml_spellcheck : spellcheck XML files skipping tags
• xml_merge : merge back files created by xml_split
• xml_pp : XML pretty printer
• xml_grep : grep XML files using XML::Twig’s subset of XPath
• xml_split : split big XML files

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

sudo apt-get -y install xml-twig-tools

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

You can also use apt command to install xml-twig-tools.

sudo apt -y install xml-twig-tools

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

sudo aptitude install xml-twig-tools

Summary

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