What does 'source' do?

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00:00 Question
00:26 Accepted answer (Score 604)
00:49 Answer 2 (Score 386)
01:26 Answer 3 (Score 117)
01:46 Answer 4 (Score 47)
02:22 Thank you

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Full question
https://superuser.com/questions/46139/wh...

Accepted answer links:
[source]: https://ss64.com/bash/source.html

Answer 2 links:
[Is there a difference between "." and "source" in bash, after all?]: https://askubuntu.com/questions/182012/i...

Answer 4 links:
[bash shell built-in command]: http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/...

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