Subdirectories matching package name mess up 'conan remove mypkg/*'

create the following structure:

zazz/
|
---conanfile.py
---zazz/
    |
    --- matazz.txt

where conanfile.py contains:

from conans import ConanFile

class zazz(ConanFile):
   name="zazz"
   version="1.0"
   exports = "*"

   def package(self):
      self.copy("*",dst="",src="")

then do:

conan export myname/channel

then:

conan remove zazz/*

You get: WARN: No package recipe reference matches with zazz/matazz.txt pattern

and the zazz package is not removed.

I ran into this with boost.

[memsharded]

Depending on the OS, the command line or shell might try differently the user input, not just for conan, but for other commands too. Please try adding quotes to your command:

$ conan remove "zazz/*"

[rconde01]

weird…I can install through pip - no problem