cd /proc/garbage

[Lev S Bishop <lev dot bishop at yale dot edu>]

I looked and this doesn't seem to have been mentioned in the archives. 
You can cd to any random subdirectory of a directory in the /proc 
filesystem, irrespective of whether it exists. Examples:

$ cd /proc/banana
$ ls
ls: .: Not a directory
$ cd /proc/self/banana
$ ls
ls: .: Not a directory
$ cd /proc/self/fd/banana
$ ls
ls: .: Not a directory

However it only works one level deep:

$ cd /proc/banana/banana
bash: cd: /proc/banana/banana: No such file or directory

Lev

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