osx man page for shells

Query: shells

OS: osx

Section: 5

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SHELLS(5)						      BSD 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. 4.2 Berkeley Distribution June 5, 1993 4.2 Berkeley Distribution
Related Man Pages
shells(4) - opensolaris
getusershell(3) - debian
shells(4) - sunos
endusershell(3) - freebsd
getusershell(3) - freebsd
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