SHELLS(5,F) AIX Technical Reference SHELLS(5,F) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- shells PURPOSE Shell database. DESCRIPTION The /etc/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 searching the file. Blank lines are also ignored. FILES /etc/shells RELATED INFORMATION See the getusershell subroutine. Processed March 8, 1991 SHELLS(5,F) 1