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deepblue_86
Asked: 2015-05-20 02:40:03 +0800 CST

terminal command for listing available shells

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I need to check out which shells are available. Which command gives me available (installed shell like, tcsh, csh, bsh) shells in terminal?

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  1. Best Answer

    Open a terminal and run this command:

    cat /etc/shells

    Sample output:

    % cat /etc/shells
# /etc/shells: valid login shells
/bin/sh
/bin/dash
/bin/bash
/bin/rbash
/bin/zsh
/usr/bin/zsh
/bin/ksh93
/bin/tcsh
/usr/bin/tcsh
/usr/bin/fish
/usr/bin/tmux
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