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6 chroot - run command or interactive shell with special root directory
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9 chroot [OPTION] NEWROOT [COMMAND [ARG]...]
10 chroot OPTION
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13 Run COMMAND with root directory set to NEWROOT.
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15 --userspec=USER:GROUP
16 specify user and group (ID or name) to use
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26 If no command is given, run '${SHELL} -i' (default: '/bin/sh -i').
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28 GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
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32 Written by Roland McGrath.
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35 Copyright © 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU
36 GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
37 This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
38 There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
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43 The full documentation for chroot is maintained as a Texinfo manual.
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53GNU coreutils 8.22 October 2018 CHROOT(1)