Paul Eggert said:

> Yes. --ignore is about what 'ls' finds in directories, not about command-line arguments.

So my command should work, IMO:

ls --hide "*.pub" id_ed*  

id_ed* would expand to all files starting with id_ed

ls will stat them and get their name

--hide should hide those matching the pattern.
ls should display the expected result of all id_ed private key files.

I don't understand why --hide is depending on whether FILEs were provided or not to the command. This is the opposite of what Paul stated.

Best regards 

Mathias M