Wildcards in apt-get commands don't work (using zsh)

[JW]

At a certain point, boot-repair asks me to "open a terminal then type the following commands". One of these commands is something like (I don't remember exactly):

    sudo apt-get purge grub*

However, I'm using zsh, and this doesn't work. Apparently * is seen as a wildcard and expanded into a list of files starting with "grub" in the current directory. (In the best case, there are no such files, so the command becomes a no-op: `sudo apt-get purge`).

This is fixed by surrounding the package name with quotes:

    sudo apt-get purge "grub*"

So it is passed as-is to apt-get, which will expand it correctly.

(In the actual command, there were two packages containing a *, IIRC.)

[YannUbuntu (yannubuntu)]

thanks JW for the report.
Which distribution are you using? is zsh installed by default in that distribution?

[JW (jw-00000)]

I'm using Ubuntu and chose to use zsh.

[YannUbuntu (yannubuntu)]

ok thank you

[YannUbuntu (yannubuntu)]

Please reopen if a mainstream distribution starts using zsh by default.
Thx