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Run the following in your terminal to fix the unescaped arguments with matching arguments with Z shell. This will fix errors such as "zsh: no matches found: head^" error
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echo "\n# Allow unmatched wildcard expressions in zsh\nsetopt NO_NOMATCH" >> ~/.zshrc
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pH-7 commented Aug 12, 2023 •
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  1. In your terminal, run setopt NO_NOMATCH. You can easily add it to your .zshrc file thanks to the following line
echo "\n# Allow unmatched wildcard expressions in zsh\nsetopt NO_NOMATCH" >> ~/.zshrc

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  1. Your zshrc will now have this at the bottom

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  1. Then, reload your .zshrc by running source ~/.zshrc

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