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@(#)shells.5 5.1 (Berkeley) 11/25/86

C 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 ``#'' 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.

/etc/shells passwd(1), getusershell(3)