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Re: IFS Object named "."

On 10/15/2018 10:21 AM, Art Tostaine, Jr. wrote:
We are getting an error in our backup process that object "." is in
use.

How can I find it? I'm in Navigator for i looking in the root and
the iASP root but not seeing it.

'.' is a special directory entry that refers to the specific directory you are in.

For instance, if you invoked a pase or shell script './xyz123.sh', it would run the script in the current directory instead of searching the path.

There is also a similar entry '..' which refers to the parent directory of the current directory.

Why the '.' directory would be locked I have no idea.

david



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