SHELLS

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BSD 4.2  

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
The shells file resides in /etc

 

SEE ALSO

getusershell(3)  

HISTORY

The file format appeared in BSD 4.3 tahoe


 

Index

NAME
DESCRIPTION
FILES
SEE ALSO
HISTORY

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