Wildcards don't appear to be working in Bash

Question

My bash shell has started acting weirdly when using wildcards. Tab-completions work and, if I type the file name in, it also works. But, if I use a wildcard, it does not work, as per the below transcript:

[~/myDir] ls JourneyManager.cpp 
JourneyManager.cpp
[~/myDir] ls JourneyManager.*
ls: cannot access 'JourneyManager.*': No such file or directory

I've examined the ls output and confirmed the file name is as expected, no weird character or anything. It's in a git repo but I don't think that's the issue since copies of the files in my home directory also have the same problem.

Answer 1

Usually, this resolves the issue:

set +f

P.S.

Probably you should check the contents of your system and user profiles. There is a good article for this https://www.tecmint.com/understanding-shell-initialization-files-and-user-profiles-linux/