For Wildcard Specification Stage Components — Unzip Cannot Find Any Matches

"unzip: cannot find any matches for wildcard specification" usually occurs because your shell (like bash or zsh) is trying to expand the wildcard ( ) before passing it to the This error is common during Oracle 10g installations or when using certain ODBC client installers

Note: This fails for filenames with spaces; use -print0 with find inside unzipped content. "unzip: cannot find any matches for wildcard specification"

2.3. Pattern Syntax Differences

  • unzip uses its own wildcard rules (similar to glob but not identical).
  • * matches any sequence of characters within a path component but does not traverse directories unless /** is explicitly used.

    A. PowerShell

    To solve this, you must prevent the shell from "helping" you. You want the wildcard to be passed directly to the unzip utility so it can search inside the archive. unzip uses its own wildcard rules (similar to

    Solutions: