Shell expansion of * and hidden files

[Andre Speelmans]

On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 05:18:56AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

> actually, it doesn't, since it wouldn't match the perfectly valid 
> ".a".  it's a popular puzzle to come up with a glob that matches all 
> hidden thingies, without matching "." or "..".  and the solution is 
> ...
> 
> $ echo .[!.]*

But this would miss the file ..test or any other which starts with two or more
dots.

And I have to admit I don't know which glob would match all :(

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Regards,

Andre