Manual method to trigger command-not-found search

[bostonvaulter]

I really like that in Ubuntu when you type in a command that's not on the system you get a message saying the package that provides that command. Unfortunately it also slows down my system, so I would like a way to trigger this manually. Something like search-command command-I-dont-have

Is there any way to do this?

I'm using Ubuntu 9.04 under andLinux but would also like to use this on a regular Ubuntu 9.04 install.

[sisco311]

Edit the /etc/bash.bashrc and comment out the command-not-found entry:

# if the command-not-found package is installed, use it
#if [ -x /usr/lib/command-not-found ]; then
#        function command_not_found_handle {
                # check because c-n-f could've been removed in the meantime
#                if [ -x /usr/lib/command-not-found ]; then
#                   /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/command-not-found -- $1
#                   return $?
#                else
#                   return 127
#                fi
#        }
#fi

Log out from the terminal and log back in.

Edit your ~/.bashrc file and append it with:

if [ -x /usr/lib/command-not-found ]; then
        function cnf {
                # check because c-n-f could've been removed in the meantime
                if [ -x /usr/lib/command-not-found ]; then
                   /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/command-not-found -- $1
                   return $?
                else
                   return 127
                fi
        }
fi

source the file:

. ~/.bashrc

usage:

cnf command-name

[bostonvaulter]

Thanks! This works perfectly. Hopefully it will be useful to others as well.

[sisco311]

Thanks! This works perfectly. Hopefully it will be useful to others as well.

You are welcome!

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