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category-page: intermediate
category-title: Intermediate commands
tags: change root
author: Gianmarco De Vita
title: chroot
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The <code>chroot</code> utility allows you to change its root directory to
the one indicated in newroot and, if given, executes the command.<br>

<pre>
chroot newroot [command]
</pre>