Bash for loop with wildcards and hidden files

Question

Just witting a simple shell script and little confused:

Here is my script:

% for f in $FILES; do echo \"Processing $f file..\"; done

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Answer 1

FILES=".bash*" works because the hidden files name begin with a .

FILES="bash*" doesn't work because the hidden files name begin with a . not a b

FILES="*bash*" doesn't work because the * wildcard at the beginning of a string omits hidden files.