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

Yes, the . at the front is special, and normally won't be matched by a * wildcard, as documented in the bash man page (and common to most Unix shells):

When a pattern is used for pathname expansion, the character “.” at the start of a name or immediately following a slash must be matched explicitly, unless the shell option dotglob is set. When matching a pathname, the slash character must always be matched explicitly. In other cases, the “.” character is not treated specially.