CHROOT(1)

📦 version 0.12.0, in arch rolling

CHROOT(1)

okay so welcome to the General Commands Manual bestie 💖 this is the page for chroot, and it's literally the moment you tell a command to live with a different root directory. iconic behavior, no cap.

🌸 NAME 🌸

chroot — run COMMAND with root directory set to NEWROOT.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

chroot [OPTION]... NEWROOT [COMMAND [ARG]...]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Run COMMAND with root directory set to NEWROOT. That's the whole vibe: you hand it a new root, and the command runs with that as its root directory. periodt.

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • --groups <GROUP1,GROUP2...> — comma-separated list of groups to switch to. group chat, but make it literal bestie 💬
  • --userspec <USER:GROUP> — colon-separated user and group to switch to. user on the left, group on the right, colon doing the matchmaking 💖
  • --skip-chdir — use this option to not change the working directory to / after changing the root directory to newroot, i.e., inside the chroot. yes bestie, this is the “don’t chdir me” flag 🙈
  • -h, --help — print help 🌈
  • -V, --version — print version ⭐

👑 VERSION 👑

v(uutils coreutils) 0.12.0 — that's the version, bestie. periodt.

aww okay that's the whole page 🫶 this cutie comes from v(uutils coreutils) 0.12.0 and it's dated 2026-09-17. love that for us 💖✨

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