Man1 - chroot.1

chroot - run command or interactive shell with special root directory

chroot [/OPTION/] NEWROOT /[/COMMAND /[/ARG/]…]
chroot /OPTION

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’).

Written by Roland McGrath.

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chroot(2)

Full documentation https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/chroot
or available locally via: info ’(coreutils) chroot invocation’