zsh: command not found?

>The error message is "zsh: command not found: wget" What does this mean?

It means you tried to run wget, but the shell doesn't know where this program is.

I'm attempting to use wget and I know it has been installed properly

You're sure it's been installed? It isn't installed as part of the standard OS distribution. It sounds like you're using Fink.

Fink normally installs fines in /sw/bin, but the OS won't look there unless you tell it to, so you either need to call wget by specifying the entire path:

<pre class=command>/sw/bin/wget</pre>

or edit your shell to include the Fink directories in your $PATH

Hi,

obviously wget is neither in your PATH nor in /sw/bin.
If you do not know, where it is installed you first have to search for it.
On way to do so ist to use the locate command, which depends on the whatis datatbase. You can execute these commands to find your wget binary:

sudo /usr/libexec/makewhatis
locate wget | grep wget$

HTH
Regrads
martin

iMac 20'' (Intel), G4 Sawtooth, iBook G4 800 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Your link is broken.


To access fink, put in the file .zshrc (or the equivalent)

source /sw/bin/init.sh

This sets up your $PATH properly, but in addition sets all the environment variables you need for fink to be working properly.

Agreed, the message means that wget is not in your shell's search paths. Another utility does the same thing: curl
Curl may do what you need and it comes bundled with Mac OS X.

/usr/local/bin/wget

This is the wget you are searching for. You can run it by typing

/usr/local/bin/wget options

Or add the following line to your .zshrc

export PATH="/usr/local/bin:$PATH"

then close the current zsh and start a new zsh.
Now you can run wget just by typing

wget options

Can curl do that?

No, curl can't do recursive download (wget -r).

PowerMacG4, PowerBookG4, iMac(C2D) Mac OS X (10.4.8)

I presume since you have wget installed on your machine and I don't on mine, that it's not a standard bundled product.

There are four unix shells that come with OS X. One of them is zsh. In 10.3 and 10.4, the default shell is bash. Prior to that it was tcsh. (ksh is also present).

Is it possible that you used to use bash and switched somehow to zsh?

If you want to switch to bash, just issue


chsh -s /bin/bash

If you want to switch to tcsh, just issue


chsh -s /bin/tcsh

If you are ok using zsh, then you want to make sure that you have zsh configured the way you want to. We can help you do that too, (or help with whichever shell you are most comfortable using).

If you installed wget with fink, you just need to issue the command

/sw/bin/init.sh

if you are using bash or zsh, and issue

/sw/bin/init.csh

if you are using tcsh.

If you installed wget into /usr/local/bin, then you need to add that to your $PATH.

As I wrote in the post you responded to,

If you want to switch to bash, just issue


chsh -s /bin/bash