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Old 02-15-2010, 12:08 AM   #1
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command to list the no. of shells

How can I know how many shells my system support(..is there any specific command ) ???
 
Old 02-15-2010, 12:11 AM   #2
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Almost all distros can support any number of shells. To see what shells you do have installed check your /etc/shells file.

Normal shells installed are
tcsh
csh
bash
dash (Ubuntu based distros)
sh (bourne shell) normall a sym link to bash
ksh
 
Old 02-15-2010, 12:19 AM   #3
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thank you very much....
 
Old 02-15-2010, 12:39 AM   #4
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How abt

Code:
chsh -l
 
Old 02-15-2010, 12:45 AM   #5
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How abt

Code:
chsh -l

That command does not work on all distributions. That is why it is better to look through your shells file as that is standard on almost all version of Linux, and even on AIX, and hp-ux
 
Old 02-15-2010, 12:53 AM   #6
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I completely agree with you jstephens84.

But I replied by looking at the distros ubuntu and backtrack in the profile.
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Old 02-15-2010, 12:57 AM   #7
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I completely agree with you jstephens84.

But I replied by looking at the distros ubuntu and backtrack in the profile.
That is interesting. Have you tried it in Ubuntu. I just tried it on my mint laptop and the command does not work. I wonder if mint took out that option or if all debian based distros took that out?
 
Old 02-15-2010, 01:23 AM   #8
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I dont't have Ubuntu machine available right now with me. But I quickly went through man page of chsh in ubuntu, interestingly Ubuntu doesn't provied -l option with chsh.

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/...n1/chsh.1.html

But chsh -l works very well under Redhat based distros..
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Old 02-15-2010, 01:33 AM   #9
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dash (Ubuntu based distros)
You mean Debian based distros right .
 
Old 02-15-2010, 01:36 AM   #10
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I have tried on CentOS its work fine.

chsh -l

output is :

/bin/sh
/bin/bash
/sbin/nologin
/bin/tcsh
/bin/csh
/bin/ksh
 
  


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