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There are a lot of times one only wants non-dotfiles in the current directory.

The find would be something like

  find . -not -path '*/\.*' -type f -depth 1

What advantages does that have over 'ls' for that case?

>What advantages does that have over 'ls' for that case?

The gp was talking about issues with piping from "ls |" and your particular case of "find" being more convoluted than "ls" isn't comparing that.

Example of the topic that gp was warning about:

[Also fyi... you may have meant "-maxdepth" instead of "-depth" in your example.]

FYI the zsh glob for this is `^.*`, e.g.:

    echo ^.*

will show all non-dotfiles in the current directory.

In my Zsh

    echo *

does not expand dotfiles. I guess there's some setopt for that.

You're right. Bored during meeting, go this to work:

    echo (*)#.*

This prints all dot files and regular files in the current directory. You do need to have `setopt EXTENDED_GLOB` somewhere in your zsh config.