What is the purpose of period (.) in the ~/.bashrc

Question

I've been studying the bash scripting then i noticed using the period wildcard in the bash script, in my sense the period treated as current directory,

I have snippet

if ! shopt -oq posix; then
  if [ -f /usr/share/bash-completion/bash_completion ]; then
    . /usr/share/bash-completion/bash_completion
  elif [ -f /etc/bash_completion ]; then
    . /etc/bash_completion
  fi
fi

. /etc/bash_completion In this script what is the use of the (.), period.

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/114300/whats-the-meaning-of-a-dot-before-a-command-in-shell — Jonathon Reinhart, Nov 29 '19 at 16:02

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 29 '19 at 16:00

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. is used to source a file:

. /etc/bash_completion

is the same as

source /etc/bash_completion

answered Nov 29 '19 at 16:00

JorisH

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What is the purpose of period (.) in the ~/.bashrc

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