Re: doc improvement for dotglob

[Ian Kelling]

On Tue, Sep 27, 2016, at 09:41 AM, L. A. Walsh wrote:
> 
> 
> Ian Kelling wrote:
> > The docs currently say:
> >
> > "When a pattern is used for filename expansion, the character '.' at
> > the start of a filename or immediately following a slash must be matched
> > explicitly, unless the shell option 'dotglob' is set. 
> >
> > The last bit should be changed to say
> >
> > unless the shell option 'dotglob' is set and the file is not named '.'
> > or '..'. 
> >   
> ---
>     But that's not what is supposed to happen.  It doesn't say it 
> matches the
> filename with "." [or ".."], but the *start* of a filename or after a
> "/". 
> I.e., interactive shell usage should not include 
> ".profile/.foo/.anything" in
> such expansions.

I'm not sure your reading it quite right. Chet gets it.
Another way of explaining it is:
dotglob does not affect the files "." and "..".