Open Source Technical Blog

To make star character in bash to match hidden files, use dotglob option:

$ shopt -s dotglob

If directory contains both normal and hidden (.*) files, here what you will get without and with dotglob set:

$ ls *
file1.txt  file2.txt
$ shopt -s dotglob 
$ ls *
file1.txt  file2.txt  .htaccess  .htpassword