bash: getting rid of '.' and '..' when looping over files that begin with '.' in a folder

Question

I want to loop over the files that begin with '.' in directory x (x might be any path):

$ for file in x/.*
> do
>     echo -n $file" "
> done
x/. x/.. x/..a x/.b

What is the best way to get rid of x/., and x/.. ?

Answer 1

with bash, you can use GLOBIGNORE

$ ls -1tra
..
.test1
.test
test
.

$ for i in .*; do echo $i;done
.
..
.test
.test1

$ GLOBIGNORE=".:.."
$ for i in .*; do echo $i;done
.test
.test1