Clarification about creating .xinitrc file for xfce

[Lowell Gilbert]

Mrityunjoy Ghosh <mgofbbk at gmail.com> writes:

> Section 5.7.3 for creating .initrc and  .xsession file for xfce  written as
> given below. My question is what is the need of dot after inverted commas
> (i.e.    ".   /usr    )? What will happen if it is done this way?
>
> % echo ". /usr/local/etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc" > ~/.xinitrc
>
> % echo ". /usr/local/etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc" > ~/.xsession

The dot is equivalent to the keyword "source".