Drupal-project: no matches found: drupal/devel:8.*

[michaellenahan]

After installing Drupal 8 using drupal-composer I wanted to download devel.

Following the instructions in the README I tried this:

composer require drupal/devel:8.*

and got this error:

zsh: no matches found: drupal/devel:8.*

This works however

composer require drupal/devel

I got this:

Using version 8.1.x-dev for drupal/devel
./composer.json has been updated
Loading composer repositories with package information
Updating dependencies (including require-dev)
  - Updating drupal/devel dev-8.x-1.x (8e745a9 => 9a331e7)
    Checking out 9a331e760b2ffa32a1271a155a74cb3fab213e62

Was I using the wrong syntax?

Does README.md need to be updated?

[michaellenahan]

Oh, I can see from my composer.json diff that devel was already there, even before my "attempt to download it"

--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
         "drush/drush": "8.*",
         "drupal/console": "~0.8",

-        "drupal/devel": "8.1.*@dev",
+        "drupal/devel": "8.1.x-dev",
         "drupal/token": "8.1.*@dev"
     },
     "minimum-stability": "dev",

So, a better example for the README might be something like:

composer require drupal/bootstrap

Reading the composer documentation for require https://getcomposer.org/doc/03-cli.md#require I feel like composer require drupal/bootstrap:8.* should work, but it gives me no matches found

[derhasi]

This is caused by the globbing feature of zsh. It is not specific to composer. The problem should occur to any command when using * outside of quotes. For solving the problem you need to at least put the version constraint in quotes:

composer require drupal/devel:"8.*"
composer require "drupal/devel:8.*"

Then zsh does not interpret the asterisk as a wildcard for globbing.

[michaellenahan]

Yes it was zsh globbing. Thanks for spotting that.