CHROOT

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: September 2017
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NAME

chroot - run command or interactive shell with special root directory  

SYNOPSIS

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

DESCRIPTION

Run COMMAND with root directory set to NEWROOT.

--groups=,G_LIST/

specify supplementary groups as g1,g2,..,gN

--userspec=,USER/:GROUP

specify user and group (ID or name) to use

--skip-chdir

do not change working directory to '/'

--help

display this help and exit

--version

output version information and exit

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

AUTHOR

Written by Roland McGrath.  

REPORTING BUGS

GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report chroot translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>  

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://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.  

SEE ALSO

chroot(2)

Full documentation at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/chroot>
or available locally via: info aq(coreutils) chroot invocationaq

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