I’m struggling with one of the most frustrating bugs I’ve ever come across.

Bug description:

  The for command of the command-interpreter cannot see hidden files.

Reproduction steps:

1. Create a temporary directory
2. Create a few files
3. Assign a variety of attributes to the files (including hidden)
4. Use a command like for %i in (*) do echo "%i"

Expected results:

   All files are processed in the for loop either by default or though a switch.

Actual results:

• Files with any attribute other than hidden are processed; files flagged as hidden are skipped
• There is no switch to the for command to allow it to process hidden files

Implications:

   There is no way to process all files from the command-prompt.

Question:

   How the heck can hidden files be processed from the command-prompt or batch-files (at least in Windows if not DOS)?