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Old 08-17-2011
Get all types of shell supported on any unix flavors.

Hello - Is there a command/way we can find out, what shells are supported on a Unix machine?

Please let me know.

Thanks,
Manju
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Old 08-17-2011
What is mean by "shells are supported on a Unix machine"

Unix shell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Old 08-17-2011
Hi itkamaraj - I meant on a particular unix machine, say solaris, ksh, csh, bash etc are supported. Is there a way I can find out what all are supported through some command or script?
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Old 08-17-2011
Code:
cat /etc/shells

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