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Quickly get versions of items in /etc/shells
#!/bin/sh
#brunerd - shell_vers
#a simple version checker of available shells
#not guaranteed to always work (I'm looking at YOU dash!)
#specify another volume to test
target="$1"
#loop through /etc/shells either locally or on specified target volume
for shell in $(grep -v ^\# "${1}"/etc/shells); do
echo "Shell: ${shell}"
"${shell}" --version
echo
done
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