To understand why this error occurs, one must first understand the distinction between the shell and the command being executed. In most Unix-like systems (Linux, macOS), the shell (such as Bash or Zsh) attempts to expand wildcards (like *.zip ) before passing the arguments to the unzip program.

When you run a command like this:

If your terminal outputs these consecutively without a newline separator in your logging system, they may merge into: To understand why this error occurs, one must

unzip logs.zip *.log # Error if no .log files exist in current directory To understand why this error occurs