terminal command for listing available shells

Question

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

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

Open a terminal and run this command:

chsh -l

Sample output:

/bin/sh
/bin/bash
/usr/bin/fish
/bin/fish
/usr/bin/git-shell
/bin/nu
/usr/bin/nu