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SHELLS(5) FreeBSD 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.
FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE-p11 June 5, 1993 FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE-p11