cat command not found even tough package is installed

I’ve been running Ubuntu 20.04.3 in a VM for a few weeks without any major problems but when i tried to use cat today it only said:

Command 'cat' not found, but can be installed with:

sudo apt install coreutils 

I have coreutils installed and the other commands like tree and touch work. What am i doing wrong?

>Solution :

I cannot say what happened, maybe you removed the binary by accident.

You can reinstall the package using apt:

sudo apt install --reinstall coreutils