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Introduction

The shell is a program, that provides users with a command prompt. Different shells behave differently. The standard shell on GhostBSD is fish. When you install a shell from a port or a package, it adds an appropriate entry in /etc/shells.

Shells on GhostBSD

GhostBSD comes with different shells. The file /etc/shells contains the following list:

• /bin/sh
• /bin/csh
• /bin/tcsh
• /usr/local/bin/zsh
• /usr/local/bin/rzsh
• /usr/local/bin/ksh93
• /usr/local/libexec/git-core/git-shell
• /usr/local/bin/fish
• /usr/local/bin/bash
• /usr/local/bin/rbash