Globbing hidden files

[ghost]

Examples that use globbing such as Count files or directories in directory don't take into account files starting with a dot.

[defdefred]

exclude . & ..
$ count .[^.]* ..?* *
39
#include all files
$ count .* *
41

[chambln]

What is ..?* supposed to expand to? Is that not equivalent to ..*?

$ ls -a
.  ..  .hidden  visible
$ echo * .*
visible . .. .hidden
$ echo * .[^.]*
visible .hidden

[chambln]

Oh, I see: ..?* covers files that start with two dots (except ..). Very nice!

$ ls -a
.  ..  ..doubledot  .hidden  visible
$ echo * .*
visible . .. ..doubledot .hidden
$ echo * .[^.]* ..?*
visible .hidden ..doubledot

[chambln]

@dylanaraps Is this worth adding to the book somewhere? Either as a note in 'Count files or directories in directory' or a section dedicated to globbing tricks?