Unzip Cannot Find Any Matches For Wildcard Specification Stage Components Jun 2026

You can also "escape" the asterisk directly. This tells the shell to treat the symbol as a literal character. unzip stage\*.zip

Why quoting matters — brief

If the build process fails to generate the artifact, or if the artifact is named component-v2.zip instead of the expected pattern, the script will crash with this error. In an automated context, the "cannot find any matches" error is often a symptom of an upstream failure. The code compilation might have failed silently, or a previous cleanup step might have moved the files. Consequently, this error acts as a sentinel, indicating that the expected state of the file system does not match reality. You can also "escape" the asterisk directly