Issue #8283 has been reported by gpakosz (Gregory Pakosz). ---------------------------------------- Bug #8283: Dir.glob doesn't recurse hidden directories https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/8283 Author: gpakosz (Gregory Pakosz) Status: Open Priority: Normal Assignee: Category: core Target version: ruby -v: ruby 2.0.0p0 (2013-02-24 revision 39474) [x86_64-darwin11.4.2] Hello, I noticed Dir.glob('**') doesn't recurse hidden directories. I believe regression has been introduced by r36903. Here is the following directory / file structure: $ find . . ./foo ./foo/.bar ./foo/.bar/baz.txt ./foo/bar And here is the behavior of ruby 2.0.0p0 (2013-02-24 revision 39474) [x86_64-darwin11.4.2]: $ ruby -e "puts Dir.glob('**/*')" foo foo/bar -- http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/