Shell expansion of * and hidden files

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Fri, 23 Jul 2004, Andre Speelmans wrote:

> 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 :(

hmmm ... you're right.  must think harder on this one.

rday