How to reload a .bashrc in Terminal

In this tutorial, we are going to learn about how to reload a .bashrc file from the terminal after making a changes to it.

Reloading the .bashrc file

Use the following command to reload a .bashrc file directly from the current terminal without closing or opening a new one.

. ~/.bashrc

The dot (.) operator execute commands from the file in the current environment.

Similarly, you can also use the source command.

source ~/.bashrc