This seems like the least useful thing to type at a command prompt:
cd .
"Take me to where I already am, please."
But suppose that your current directory, /whatever/foo, is a symlink, and some other process has deleted and recreated foo.
$ ls ls: cannot open directory .: stale file handle $ cd . $ ls [list of files]
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