Bash globbing - autoexpand for a few specific cases?

Question

I understand that the wildcard * (by itself) will expand in such a way that it means \"all non-hidden files in the current folder\" with hidden files being thos

Answer 1

To expand on paviums answer and answer the second part of your question, all files except . and .. could be specified like this:

{.[!.]*,*}

Depending on your exact use case it might be better to set the dotglob shell option, so that bash includes dotfiles in expansions of * by default:

$ shopt -s dotglob
$ echo *
.tst