Greetings,

i will like to ask what does ; mean in the bashrc file?

does it means it is a separator in unix?

And what about . in the bashrc?

What does it means in unix

Thanks

The ; is the command separator, so that you can for instance cd to a directory and list it's files by typing
It's common to most of the shells, and not unique to the bashrc file. I use it frequently on the command-line when I'm in a hurry to put multiple commands together before I press enter.

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And what about . in the bashrc?
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The . in the beginning of the file means it's a "hidden" file. This is not unique to bash. You can try it yourself. When in your homedirectory and you type ls, you cannot see the "dot"-files such as .bashrc, but if you type ls -a (list all files), these will show.

I recommend having a look at the bash manpage, or maybe this one for starters: http://www.hypexr.org/bash_tutorial.php

-y1

Well, it depends on the context. The semicolon ; is the command separator which let you run two commands on the same line. The dot . can be either
1) the equivalent of the source built-in
2) the current working directory
3) the single character match in a regular expression
Since you've found it in .bashrc I guess the first definition fits. When you "source" a file, all the statements in it are executed in the current shell. Useful to set the environment and retain the assigned environment variables in the current shell.