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SHELLS(5) BSD File Formats Manual SHELLS(5) 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 shells file format appeared in 4.3BSD-Tahoe. BSD June 5, 1993 BSD
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