bash globbing and dot-files

Found a nifty little feature in bash.

Globbing is expanding file pattterns, like when you typ "ls -l file*" in bash it is not ls that does the file matching and filtering. bash will glob ("expand") the file list file* and ls will get all the files as arguments.
Now, per default bash doesn't glob dot-files. If I do "ls *" I will not get .bashrc and .bash_profile etc. Luckily it is easy to change this behavior. Set the bash option dotglob to enabled and it works!
Example:

[hlinden@spinner testdir]$ ls -Al
total 0
-rw-rw-r--  1 hlinden hlinden 0 Feb  1  2007 .dotfile1
-rw-rw-r--  1 hlinden hlinden 0 Feb  1  2007 .dotfile2
-rw-rw-r--  1 hlinden hlinden 0 Feb  1  2007 file1
-rw-rw-r--  1 hlinden hlinden 0 Feb  1  2007 file2
-rw-rw-r--  1 hlinden hlinden 0 Feb  1  2007 file3
[hlinden@spinner testdir]$ echo *
file1 file2 file3
[hlinden@spinner testdir]$ shopt -s dotglob
[hlinden@spinner testdir]$ echo *
.dotfile1 .dotfile2 file1 file2 file3
[hlinden@spinner testdir]$

Just put shopt -s dotglob in your .bashrc file or in a global /etc/profile.d file.
Another quite nice globbing feature is to have case insensitive globbing.
Check this out:

[hlinden@spinner testdir]$ shopt -s nocaseglob
[hlinden@spinner testdir]$ ls -l F*1
-rw-rw-r--  1 hlinden hlinden 0 Feb  1  2007 file1
[hlinden@spinner testdir]$