I was surprised recently when I did something like
mv ./* ../somedirectory
and found that files like .gitignore were not moved.
I do most of my work in zsh on OS X, and this surprise bit me in bash on CentOS. I tried bash on OS X and found the same behavior: * does not match dot files. This seems very undesirable to me, but apparently it’s the bash default. (It may be the zsh default too for all I remember, but I may have changed it years ago in my .zshrc and forgotten it ever worked differently.)
How can I configure bash to behave as I expected: for * to match all files, and not ignore dot files.
In case this is at all unclear, here’s how to reproduce it
cd /tmp
mkdir {t,d}est
touch test/{.,}{1,2,3,4,5,6,7}
ls -hal test
mv test/* dest
ls -hal test # notice dot files are still there
ls -hal dest # notice only some files were mv'ed