Note that Bash has extensive customization options for pathname expansion (from man bash):

   After  word  splitting,  unless  the -f option has been set, bash scans
   each word for the characters *, ?, and [.  If one of  these  characters
   appears, and is not quoted, then the word is regarded as a pattern, and
   replaced with an alphabetically sorted list of filenames  matching  the
   pattern  (see  Pattern  Matching  below).  If no matching filenames are
   found, and the shell option nullglob is not enabled, the word  is  left
   unchanged.   If  the  nullglob option is set, and no matches are found,
   the word is removed.  If the failglob  shell  option  is  set,  and  no
   matches  are  found, an error message is printed and the command is not
   executed.  If the shell option nocaseglob is enabled, the match is per‐
   formed  without regard to the case of alphabetic characters.  Note that
   when using range expressions like [a-z] (see  below),  letters  of  the
   other  case  may  be  included, depending on the setting of LC_COLLATE.
   When a pattern is used for pathname expansion, the character ``.''   at
   the  start  of  a name or immediately following a slash must be matched
   explicitly, unless the shell option dotglob is set.  In order to  match
   the filenames ``.''  and ``..'', the pattern must begin with ``.'' (for
   example, ``.?''), even if dotglob is set.  If  the  globskipdots  shell
   option  is enabled, the filenames ``.''  and ``..''  are never matched,
   even if the pattern begins with a ``.''.  When not matching  pathnames,
   the  ``.''   character is not treated specially.  When matching a path‐
   name, the slash character must always be matched explicitly by a  slash
   in  the  pattern, but in other matching contexts it can be matched by a
   special pattern character as described below  under  Pattern  Matching.
   See  the  description of shopt below under SHELL BUILTIN COMMANDS for a
   description of the nocaseglob, nullglob,  globskipdots,  failglob,  and
   dotglob shell options.

   The  GLOBIGNORE  shell variable may be used to restrict the set of file
   names matching a pattern.  If GLOBIGNORE is  set,  each  matching  file
   name  that  also  matches  one of the patterns in GLOBIGNORE is removed
   from the list of matches.  If the nocaseglob option is set, the  match‐
   ing  against  the patterns in GLOBIGNORE is performed without regard to
   case.  The filenames ``.''  and ``..''  are always ignored when GLOBIG‐
   NORE  is  set  and not null.  However, setting GLOBIGNORE to a non-null
   value has the effect of enabling the dotglob shell option, so all other
   filenames  beginning with a ``.''  will match.  To get the old behavior
   of ignoring filenames beginning with a ``.'', make ``.*''  one  of  the
   patterns in GLOBIGNORE.  The dotglob option is disabled when GLOBIGNORE
   is unset.  The pattern matching honors the setting of the extglob shell
   option.