Hi fishers,
I've noticed that it is very uncomfortable to use wild cards to work with
'hidden' files and folders, because when expanded it always produces '.'
and '..' directories, which normally are almost never needed for expansion.
Consider the following example: you need to copy all the files and
directories (including hidden) from one directory to another. You can not
write
cp -r dir/* dir/.* destination/
or
cp -r dir/{,.}* destination/
because it will be also expanded to the dir/.., which means that cp will
copy also the contents of the outer directory. I've failed to find an
example, where you really need these '.' and '..' in expansion. Does
anyone knows them?
So I propose to remove '.' and '..' from '.*' expansion. If someone need
them, he can add them manually with with {} syntax.
regards,
Maxim
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