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SHELLS(5) BSD File Formats Manual SHELLS(5)NAMEshells -- shell databaseDESCRIPTIONThe 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 ALSOgetusershell(3)HISTORYThe shells file format appeared in 4.3BSD-Tahoe.BSDJune 5, 1993 BSD