SHELLS(5)                 FreeBSD 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.

FreeBSD 15.1-STABLE-HBSD         June 5, 1993                        SHELLS(5)