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Item Include and Exclude wildcards cannot express "all files with a dot in them"

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Description

The pattern `**/*.*` matches everything, even files that do not have a `.` character in them. Apparently this originates from the behaviour of the .Net `Directory.GetFiles(string, string)` method.

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