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

Combining sth and pavium answers

# dot files but avoiding . and ..
.[!.]*

# all files but avoiding . and .. 
{.[!.]*,*}