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SHELLS(5)                DragonFly 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. DragonFly 3.5 June 5, 1993 DragonFly 3.5

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