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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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19 specify user and group (ID or name) to use
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32 Written by Roland McGrath.
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41 This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
42 There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
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45 chroot(2)
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47 Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/chroot>
48 or available locally via: info '(coreutils) chroot invocation'
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52GNU coreutils 9.0 March 2022 CHROOT(1)