Why does `dir *.*` give me all files and folders?

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Full question
https://superuser.com/questions/1193102/...

Answer 1 links:
[Wildcards]: https://ss64.com/nt/syntax-wildcards.htm...
[Naming Files, Paths, and Namespaces]: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library...(
[findstr]: https://ss64.com/nt/findstr.html

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