Native globbing on Unix lacks ability to include hidden items #4683
Description
Get-Item and Get-ChildItem have the -Force switch for including hidden items in the enumeration / matching of item names.
Currently, there is no analog when calling an external utility with a glob (wildcard pattern) argument.
Unfortunately, it looks like the only way to provide this ability would be via a new preference variable.
In bash, it is shell option dotglob that controls whether hidden items are included or not.
Current behavior
# Create temp. dir. for easy experimentation.
Push-Location (New-Item -Force -ItemType Directory -Path ($tmpDir = [io.Path]::GetTempPath() + "globtest.$PID"))
# Create a regular and a hidden file.
$null = New-Item -Force -Path 'a', '.a' -ItemType File
# This currently returns only 'a',
# with no way to opt into returning the hidden '.a' file too.
' --- printf *'
printf '%s\n' *
# With Get-Item/Get-ChildItem, using -Force opts into including hidden items.
' --- Get-Item -Force *'
Get-Item -Force * | % Name
# Remove temp. dir.
Pop-Location
Remove-Item -Force -Recurse $tmpDir
Environment data
PowerShell Core v6.0.0-beta.6 on macOS 10.12.6
PowerShell Core v6.0.0-beta.6 on Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS