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Can I keep . and .. out of .* expansion?
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Mar 15, 20261991 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I often find it annoying (or worse) when I type in bash and the command applies to the parent directory and current directory. Is there some shell option or other configuration I can tweak to make bash exclude and from the expansion of ?
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command .*
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In bash, in this order: When GLOBIGNORE is set, . and .. are automatically ignored, so you dont actually need to set them in GLOBIGNORE, but if you have nothing else to ignore you wont have anything to set it to. Every time you set GLOBIGNORE to a nā¦
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