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how to cd into a thumb drive from terminal ( Mac OSX )

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Problem

How do i change into the directory of my thumbdrive? I've been poking around and see that this command, "diskutil list", lists all my local disks. That produces this.. now i see that my thumbdrive is showing up in /dev/disk3 but i can't get to it. I can cd into /dev but thats as far as i can get. "cd /dev/disk3/THUMBDRIVE" tells me "-bash: cd: /dev/disk3/THUMBDRIVE: Not a directory" any help would be great.

Error Output

David-Adamss-MacBook-Pro:~ davidadams$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *250.1 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2: …

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It will show you the directory location of all mounted volumes. Then just cd into the drive you want.

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