chroot with working directory specified

Say I want to write wrapper for chroot command with the possibility to set working directory otherwise preserving chroot semantics. Thus semantics should be: chroot.sh [arg]... My naive attempt is: #!/bin/sh chroot_dir=$1 working_dir=$2 shift 2 chroot "$chroot_dir" sh -c "cd $working_dir; $*" But this fails to correctly handle: chroot.sh /path/to/chroot /tmp touch 'filename with space' I cannot figure out how it should be implemented correctly. Is it possible using bash only? On my CentOS 6 system chroot command doesn't support setting working directory. Probably this is not true on other systems.