zsh: no matches found: github:BirdeeHub/nixCats-nvim#default

[kohane27]

Hello! I'm trying to run the templates:

➜ nix flake init -t github:BirdeeHub/nixCats-nvim#default
zsh: no matches found: github:BirdeeHub/nixCats-nvim#default


✖ nix flake init -t github:BirdeeHub/nixCats-nvim#luaUtils
zsh: no matches found: github:BirdeeHub/nixCats-nvim#luaUtils


✖ nix flake init -t github:BirdeeHub/nixCats-nvim#home-manager
zsh: no matches found: github:BirdeeHub/nixCats-nvim#home-manager


✖ nix flake init -t github:BirdeeHub/nixCats-nvim#nixos
zsh: no matches found: github:BirdeeHub/nixCats-nvim#nixos

[BirdeeHub]

Escape the #

In zsh # can be a matching/globbing character if you have the extended globbing setting on. If you also have the fail on no match setting on, it will then cause the command to fail rather than falling back to executing normally.

Put a \ before it.

nix flake init -t github:BirdeeHub/nixCats-nvim\#default

And if you plan to keep using both zsh and nix, as I do myself, you might want to turn the fail on no match setting off so that you can copy paste nix commands without this annoyance.

This is the zsh setting that makes it so that # can be used as a matching/globbing character.

setopt extendedglob

You can leave extendedglob on if you would like.

You should turn off the fail on no match setting like this

unsetopt nomatch

This way, if it fails, it will then just ignore it and execute the command as if it were escaped.

[kohane27]

Thank you so much for such a detailed response and a lesson on zsh! Apologies for the noise that is totally unrelated to the project. Thank you and have a good day:)

[BirdeeHub]

No problem. Once upon a time I made a post on reddit asking the same question and I only received half the above answer.