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It seems I have some zsh misconfiguration. I use youtube-dl regular to download videos. But since a few days, I get this error
youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkd6JkfI4yk
zsh: no matches found: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkd6JkfI4yk
I did not change anything with my zsh configuration. Why do I get this error message and how can I make it work again?
FYI I don’t have oh-my-zsh installed.
You need to escape the ? and = using backslashes:
youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch\?v\=mkd6JkfI4yk
? is a globbing pattern for any one character. In Bash, if no matching files are found, the ? is treated as a literal ? character, whereas in ZSH, no such exception is made. Thus, e.g. if we create the file test-x.txt, then echo test-?.txt will output test-x.txt in both Bash and ZSH, but if we delete the file, then Bash outputs test-?.txt, whereas ZSH complains that it can't find any files with matching names: no matches found.
Jan 26, 2020 at 18:58
Wrapping in quotes also works
youtube-dl "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkd6JkfI4yk"
