zsh: no matches found: uvicorn[standard]

Question

I am following the example to install unvicorn:

https://www.uvicorn.org/

by doing:

pip install uvicorn[standard]

But received the following error:

 % pip install uvicorn[standard]
zsh: no matches found: uvicorn[standard]

However this works:

 % pip install uvicorn

I am on MacPro with Python 3.7.

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score 24 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 21 '21 at 16:02

24

You need to use single quotes.

pip install 'uvicorn[standard]'

answered Aug 21 '21 at 16:02

Gabriel G.

snowmanstark · Answer 2 · 2022-02-10T09:56:32.517

11

So, if you need to pass literal square brackets as an argument to a command, you either need to escape them or quote the argument like this:

pip install 'uvicorn[standard]'

If you want to disable globbing for the pip command permanently, you can do so by adding this to your ~/.zshrc:

alias pip='noglob pip'

edited Feb 10 '22 at 09:56

answered Aug 23 '21 at 07:00

snowmanstark

this is how an answer should look like! thanks! – adir abargil May 05 '23 at 07:55
did the same for poetry – adir abargil May 05 '23 at 07:55

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered May 24 '22 at 13:39

0

For zsh you can configure it to just run the command without trying to do any glob expansion when there are no files to match:

unsetopt nomatch

answered May 24 '22 at 13:39

sorin

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