NAME
shells —
shell database
DESCRIPTION
Theshells 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
shellsfile resides in /etc.
SEE ALSO
HISTORY
The shells file format appeared in
4.3BSD-Tahoe.