I don't know if it's the default or if it's something I've set in my config a decade or two ago but my zsh behaves like this by default (i.e. I get an error for

I don't know if it's the default or if it's something I've set in my config a decade or two ago but my zsh behaves like this by default (i.e. I get an error for blobs that match nothing instead of silently passing the * along). That seems much saner to me: $ find . -name *.txt zsh: no matches found: *.txt That'll teach you to quote your `find` patterns real fast...