It sounds like you are encountering a specific error in a technical environment (e.g., a build system, CI/CD pipeline, or scripting scenario) where the unzip command fails with a message similar to:

unzip: cannot find or open [file.zip], [file.zip].zip or [file.zip].ZIP.
unzip: cannot find any matches for wildcard specification 'stage/components/*'

While I cannot provide a full academic “paper” on this narrow error message, I can provide a structured technical analysis suitable for internal documentation, a knowledge base article, or a short troubleshooting guide. Below is a paper-style write‑up on the issue.

5. Example Fix

Assuming listing shows:

Archive: archive.zip
  Length      Date    Time    Name
---------  ---------- -----   ----
        0  2025-01-01 12:00   stage/components/file1.txt
        0  2025-01-01 12:00   stage/components/file2.txt

Correct extraction:

unzip archive.zip "stage/components/*"

If error persists, use unzip -j to junk paths:

unzip -j archive.zip "stage/components/*" -d ./target/

4. Extracting from Standard Input with Wildcards

When you pipe a ZIP file to unzip (e.g., cat archive.zip | unzip), wildcard extraction is not supported. If you attempt cat archive.zip | unzip 'stage/*', you may see this error because unzip cannot seek within a stream to match wildcards.

Technical Note: Resolving unzip: cannot find any matches for wildcard specification for stage/components

3. Using exclusion lists

This error often happens when trying to exclude specific files using the -x flag. The exclusion pattern must also be quoted.

# Extract everything EXCEPT .txt files
unzip project.zip '*' -x '*.txt'

Example:

If your directory structure is:

project/
|-- stage/
    |-- components/
        |-- your-component.zip

And you're trying to unzip all zip files in stage/components/, ensure you're in the project/ directory or specify the path accurately:

unzip stage/components/*.zip

Or navigate to the stage/ directory and then run:

cd stage/components/
unzip *.zip

If after trying these solutions you still encounter issues, consider providing more details about your specific scenario for more targeted advice.

This is a common error when using the unzip utility on Linux or Unix systems. It occurs because the Unix shell (like Bash or Zsh) attempts to expand your wildcard (*) before running the command, rather than passing the wildcard to the unzip program.

Here is a useful guide on why this happens and how to fix it.