sudo & chown command not found?

Question

I have a rails project which I think has been created as root. I want to change the permissions so that the owner is not root but my user.

I found a command here on stackoverflow to achieve this.

sudo chown -R $(username):$(username) Directoryname

So to change it so that my user owns it I am running this:

sudo chown -R $(Jack):$(Jack) APIClient

However I get the error:

 sudo: chown: command not found

If i just run chown without sudo I get:

zsh: command not found: chown

Does anyone have any idea how I can fix this? I think it may be to do with my zsh but not sure.

Thanks for any help.

Answer 1

So @kaman helped me fix the problem in the comments above.

Turns out I didn't have the links to chown in my $PATH variable.

To fix this I added the following to my .zshrc file. However as kaman has put in the comments above If you're running bash just put it in the .bash_profile

export PATH="$PATH:/usr/sbin"

Thanks kaman and hope this helps anyone else who gets the same error.