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Troubleshooting "unzip cannot find any matches for wildcard specification stage components"

The second scenario is more subtle and relates to how the error message is generated. In some environments, particularly when using specific flags or older versions of utilities, if the shell does not expand the wildcard (because the option nullglob is off, meaning a non-matching wildcard is passed literally), unzip receives the literal string *.zip. Since unzip does not support wildcards in the same way the shell does, it looks for a file literally named *.zip. When it fails to find a file with an asterisk in its name, it reports that it cannot find a match for the specification. Troubleshooting "unzip cannot find any matches for wildcard

Shell options differ in CI; avoid relying on shell-specific glob behavior. Use safe checks: files=(stage_components*.zip) if [ -e "$files[0]" ]; then for f in "$files[@]"; do unzip "$f"; done else echo "No matching zip files; aborting" >&2 exit 1 fi When it fails to find a file with

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If there's a file named stage.txt in the current directory, the shell expands stage/* to stage.txt before unzip runs. Then unzip looks for a file named stage.txt inside the archive – which fails, often with a different error. But under certain conditions, the expansion can result in arguments that unzip interprets as a wildcard specification, leading to the error. PowerShell Examples of Error Scenarios Contents If there's