Man Pages - Manpage for chroot

Posted May 26th, 2004 in Man Pages (Updated June 15th, 2004)

Man page for the unix linux bsd command chroot.

• NAME
• SYNOPSIS
• DESCRIPTION
• AUTHOR
• REPORTING BUGS
• COPYRIGHT
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NAME

chroot - run command or interactive shell with special root directory

SYNOPSIS

chroot NEWROOT [COMMAND...]

chroot OPTION

DESCRIPTION

Run COMMAND with root directory set to NEWROOT.

--help display this help and exit

--version

output version information and exit

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

AUTHOR

Written by Roland McGrath.

REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.

COPYRIGHT