.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.48.5. .TH CHROOT "8" "January 2024" "GNU coreutils 9.4" "User Commands" .SH NAME chroot \- run command or interactive shell with special root directory .SH SYNOPSIS .B chroot [\fI\,OPTION\/\fR] \fI\,NEWROOT \/\fR[\fI\,COMMAND \/\fR[\fI\,ARG\/\fR]...] .br .B chroot \fI\,OPTION\/\fR .SH DESCRIPTION .\" Add any additional description here .PP Run COMMAND with root directory set to NEWROOT. .TP \fB\-\-groups\fR=\fI\,G_LIST\/\fR specify supplementary groups as g1,g2,..,gN .TP \fB\-\-userspec\fR=\fI\,USER\/\fR:GROUP specify user and group (ID or name) to use .TP \fB\-\-skip\-chdir\fR do not change working directory to '/' .TP \fB\-\-help\fR display this help and exit .TP \fB\-\-version\fR output version information and exit .PP If no command is given, run '"$SHELL" \fB\-i\fR' (default: '/bin/sh \fB\-i\fR'). .SS "Exit status:" .TP 125 if the chroot command itself fails .TP 126 if COMMAND is found but cannot be invoked .TP 127 if COMMAND cannot be found .TP \- the exit status of COMMAND otherwise .SH AUTHOR Written by Roland McGrath. .SH "REPORTING BUGS" GNU coreutils online help: .br Report any translation bugs to .SH COPYRIGHT Copyright \(co 2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later . .br This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. .SH "SEE ALSO" \fBchroot\fP(2) .PP .br Full documentation .br or available locally via: info \(aq(coreutils) chroot invocation\(aq