gsutil returning “no matches found”

Question

I\'m trying using gsutil to remove the contents of a Cloud Storage bucket (but not the bucket itself). According to the documentation, the command should be:

Answer 1

zsh is attempting to expand the wildcard before gsutil sees it (and is complaining that you have no local files matching that wildcard). Please try this, to prevent zsh from doing so:

gsutil rm 'gs://bucket/**'

Note that you need to use single (not double) quotes to prevent zsh wildcard handling.