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 meet your first case:

echo {.,}[^.]*

or

echo {.,}[!.]*

Edit:

This one seems to get everything, but is shorter than ephemient's

echo {.*,}[^.]*