| SHELLS(5) | File Formats Manual | SHELLS(5) |
shells — shell
database
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.
shells file resides in
/etc.The shells file format appeared in
4.3BSD-Tahoe.
| June 5, 1993 | BSD 4.2 |