NAME
shells – shell database
DESCRIPTION
The shells file contains a list of the shells on the system. For each shell a single line should be present, consisting of the shell's path, relative to root.
A hash mark (``#'') indicates the beginning of a comment; subsequent characters up to the end of the line are not interpreted by the routines which search the file. Blank lines are also ignored.
FILES
- /etc/shells
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The shells file resides in /etc.
SEE ALSO
HISTORY
The shells file format appeared in 4.3BSD-tahoe.