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CHROOT(1) User Commands CHROOT(1)

NAME

chroot - manual page for chroot 8.32

SYNOPSIS

chroot [OPTION] NEWROOT [COMMAND [ARG]...]
chroot OPTION

DESCRIPTION

Run COMMAND with root directory set to NEWROOT.

specify supplementary groups as g1,g2,..,gN
specify user and group (ID or name) to use
do not change working directory to '/'
display this help and exit
output version information and exit

If no command is given, run '"$SHELL" -i' (default: '/bin/sh -i').

GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> Report any translation bugs to <https://translationproject.org/team/> Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/chroot> or available locally via: info '(coreutils) chroot invocation'

AUTHOR

Written by Roland McGrath.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

August 2022 GNU coreutils 8.32