zsh: no matches found: requests[security]

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zsh: no matches found: requests[security]

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00:00 Question
01:13 Accepted answer (Score 432)
01:46 Thank you

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Full question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3053...

Question links:
[https://urllib3.readthedocs.org/en/lates...]: https://urllib3.readthedocs.org/en/lates...

Accepted answer links:
[square brackets for globbing / pattern matching]: http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Guide/zshguid...
[globbing]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glob_%28pro...

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ACCEPTED ANSWER

Score 634

zsh uses square brackets for globbing / pattern matching.

That means that 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 'requests[security]'

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'

ANSWER 2

Score 13

Use instead:

pip install requests\[security\]

Works flawlessly on MacOS with zsh.