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Want to understand the meaning of the following line

HI All
Please find the code below from a script called test.sh

echo "Hello World"
. test_common.lib
get_info

in the file test_common.lib i have the following contents

get_info()
{
c_cnt=0;
cm="";
echo "Inside get_info"
}

when i run the script test.sh

i get a error message

test.sh: line 3: get_info: command not found

First of all i would like to know how this line behaves
"test_common.lib"

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Dhanamurthy

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