The dot command ‘.‘ is the equivalent of the C Shell (and Bash) source command. It is specified by POSIX (see dot), and supported by the Bourne and Korn shells (and zsh, I believe). . somefile Note that the shell looks for the file using $PATH, but the file only has to be readable, not … Read more
The only difference is in portability. . is the POSIX-standard command for executing commands from a file; source is a more-readable synonym provided by Bash and some other shells. Bash itself, however, makes no distinction between the two.
Try this on the PowerShell command line: . .\MyFunctions.ps1 A1 The dot operator is used for script include, aka “dot-sourcing” (or “dot source notation”)