zsh: command not found: goaccess on Mac OS

[Sergerant]

Hope it's not just me being a noob. But I spent 2 hours searching, so here I am:

Works: goaccess access.log > test.html Doesn't: gunzip -c log.gz | goaccess > test.html

Instead it says: zsh: command not found:  goaccess

Obviously, I don't want to gunzip a single file. Instead I've a rather big amount that I want to gunzip like access-*-.gz

I'm on Mac OS 10.15.7 and the latest goaccess version.

[Sergerant]

removing the spaces before and after the pipe did the trick

gunzip -c log.gz|goaccess > test.html

[allinurl]

Sounds like a zsh thing? Glad that did the trick though. Do you know if running something like gunzip -c log.gz | less or gunzip -c log.gz | cat does the same thing?

[allinurl]

By the way, I'd add the additional dash when piping data to goaccess. e.g., gunzip -c log.gz|goaccess - -o test.html

[Sergerant]

Do you know if running something like gunzip -c log.gz | less or gunzip -c log.gz | cat does the same thing?

yes, it's the same for all commands that follow after the pipe. But I finally figured why:

It's probably related to copying&pasting stuff to the terminal. I brought up the command from the history and just removed the spaces and typed them again. And voilá, it works. Strange, but I'm glad I found this hint on stackoverflow. Especially since 'command not found' happened from time to time in the past. It was a rather sporadical issue -> only happened sometimes. Never knew why. But probably it happened always when clipboard was involved.

[allinurl]

Thanks for sharing that solution!

Closing this, feel free to reopen it if needed.