[juneau-lug] What does . mean?

From: Kevin Miller <Kevin_Miller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 13:02:28 -0900

As a follow on to my previous message, in the script there are lines like:

test -s /etc/sysconfig/mail && \
      . /etc/sysconfig/mail

and 

. /etc/rc.status

What does a single dot, sitting all by itself on the line do/indicate?

TIA...

...Kevin

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