zsh: no matches found when $ curl -s -X localhost:60702/api/bundle?name=light%20reading | j q '.'

Question

I am working through the Node.js The Right Way book by Jim Wilson. I am currently trying to use a PUSH request to create a new bundle with the specified name. * curl -X POST http://:/api/bundle?name=

However, when I use the command: $ curl -s -X POST localhost:60702/api/bundle?name=light%20reading | jq '.'

rather than getting the JSON indicating that a Bundle has been created, I get: zsh: no matches found: localhost:60702/api/bundle?name=light%20reading

The command should be using a POST request to create a new All of my code is bit for bit identical to the code listed in the book. Any ideas?

Sexism

what do you get when you take off everything after the pipe (the | character) – Bod

Tried that, same no matches found error. Shouldn't the -X POST flag initiate a new bundle instance rather than look for an existing one? – Sexism

Sorry, I am not familiar with this particular tutorial. It sounds like something going on inside the API and not a zsh related issue. – Bod

Answer 1

Can you try

curl -s -X POST 'localhost:3000/api/bundle?name=light%20reading'

i.e wrap the url within '

Subrogate

Answer 2

This seems to be an issue with zsh solved here.

There are several ways to solve this:

1. You can escape the question mark ? in the url by quoting the url as explained by @huzaifa-saifuddin to avoid zsh treating it as a wildcard character.

2. As explained here, you can create an alias for curl: alias curl='noglob curl'

3. As explained here, you can disable to nomatch handling by adding the following to your ~/.zshrc: unsetopt nomatch

Rhyolite

It's work for me. Im MacOX 12.6.2. – Guendolen

Answer 3

Why?

You need to escape the question mark, otherwise zsh thinks it is a globbing or wildcard character and tries to find files that match it (that's why it says no matches found).

Solution: Using double or single quotescurl 'URL_ADDRESS' is enough:

curl "example.com/products?id=42" 

In your case, try this:

curl -s -X POST 'localhost:60702/api/bundle?name=light%20reading' | jq '.'

Ocam