Does not work well if you also care about hidden files : [simula67@hades test_bash]$ touch .hidden [simula67@hades test_bash]$ touch not_hidden [simula67@had

Does not work well if you also care about hidden files : [simula67@hades test_bash]$ touch .hidden [simula67@hades test_bash]$ touch not_hidden [simula67@hades test_bash]$ find . -type f ./not_hidden ./.hidden [simula67@hades test_bash]$ ls -al total 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 simula67 simula67 4096 Jul 7 00:32 . drwx------ 40 simula67 simula67 4096 Jul 7 00:31 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 simula67 simula67 0 Jul 7 00:33 .hidden -rw-r--r-- 1 simula67 simula67 0 Jul 7 00:33 not_hidden [simula67@hades test_bash]$ for f in ; do echo $f; done not_hidden You have use shopt -s dotglob [simula67@hades test_bash]$ shopt -s dotglob [simula67@hades test_bash]$ for f in ; do echo $f; done .hidden not_hidden