Bash globbing - autoexpand for a few specific cases?

bash, expansion, filenames, glob

Solution

To expand on paviums answer and answer the second part of your question, all files except `.` and `..` could be specified like this:

{.[!.]*,*}

Depending on your exact use case it might be better to set the `dotglob` shell option, so that bash includes dotfiles in expansions of `*` by default:

$ shopt -s dotglob
$ echo *
.tst

Problem

I understand that the wildcard `*` (by itself) will expand in such a way that it means "all non-hidden files in the current folder" with hidden files being those prefixed by a period. There are two use cases that I would think are useful, but I don't know how to properly do: How can you glob for... "All files in the current folder, including hidden files, but not including `.` or `..`"? How can you glob for... "All hidden files (and only hidden files) in the current folder, but not including `.` or `..`"?

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