Shell script

Shell script - script written for the shell, or command line interpreter, of an operating system. This software is the 201^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of software and the 641^st most popular software in Catalan Wikipedia and the 184^th most popular programming language in Catalan Wikipedia. Article “Shell script” in Catalan Wikipedia has 23.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 3 references and 2 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Catalan) language version.

Since the creation of article “Shell script”, its content was written by 4 registered users of Catalan Wikipedia and edited by 454 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Shell script is on the 641^st place in local ranking of software in Catalan Wikipedia and on the 201^st place in global ranking of software in all the time.

Shell script is on the 184^th place in local ranking of programming languages in Catalan Wikipedia and on the 67^th place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 15 times in Catalan Wikipedia and cited 1636 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Catalan): #5245 in May 2024
• Global: #4582 in November 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Catalan): #125126 in March 2025
• Global: #38156 in June 2008

There are 19 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Shell script		45.5848
2	Turkish (tr) Kabuk programlama		36.7503
3	German (de) Shellskript		35.3707
4	Korean (ko) 셸 스크립트		34.3433
5	Portuguese (pt) Shell script		27.7375
6	Vietnamese (vi) Câu lệnh shell		24.6576
7	Catalan (ca) Shell script		23.6673
8	Norwegian (no) Skallskript		17.9733
9	Spanish (es) Script de shell		13.7423
10	Russian (ru) Сценарий командной строки		11.9366

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Shell script" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Shell script		4 204 190
2	Portuguese (pt) Shell script		499 624
3	Japanese (ja) シェルスクリプト		406 005
4	Russian (ru) Сценарий командной строки		98 214
5	German (de) Shellskript		87 583
6	Chinese (zh) 外壳脚本		64 467
7	Korean (ko) 셸 스크립트		54 148
8	French (fr) Script shell		47 532
9	Arabic (ar) إخطاط واجهة الأوامر		39 293
10	Czech (cs) Shellový skript		38 612

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Shell script" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Shell script		3 607
2	Japanese (ja) シェルスクリプト		348
3	German (de) Shellskript		295
4	Chinese (zh) 外壳脚本		201
5	Portuguese (pt) Shell script		171
6	French (fr) Script shell		163
7	Russian (ru) Сценарий командной строки		154
8	Spanish (es) Script de shell		71
9	Turkish (tr) Kabuk programlama		46
10	Czech (cs) Shellový skript		40

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Shell script" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Shell script		232
2	Portuguese (pt) Shell script		56
3	Japanese (ja) シェルスクリプト		27
4	Czech (cs) Shellový skript		20
5	Turkish (tr) Kabuk programlama		16
6	German (de) Shellskript		14
7	Dutch (nl) Shellscript		12
8	Arabic (ar) إخطاط واجهة الأوامر		11
9	French (fr) Script shell		10
10	Galician (gl) Shell script		9

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Shell script" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Shell script		4
2	Arabic (ar) إخطاط واجهة الأوامر		1
3	Catalan (ca) Shell script		0
4	Czech (cs) Shellový skript		0
5	German (de) Shellskript		0
6	Spanish (es) Script de shell		0
7	Persian (fa) شل اسکریپت		0
8	Finnish (fi) Shell-skripti		0
9	French (fr) Script shell		0
10	Galician (gl) Shell script		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Shell script" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Shell script		333
2	Turkish (tr) Kabuk programlama		261
3	Portuguese (pt) Shell script		236
4	Chinese (zh) 外壳脚本		235
5	Japanese (ja) シェルスクリプト		116
6	Korean (ko) 셸 스크립트		116
7	German (de) Shellskript		90
8	French (fr) Script shell		52
9	Czech (cs) Shellový skript		44
10	Arabic (ar) إخطاط واجهة الأوامر		36

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic إخطاط واجهة الأوامر
ca	Catalan Shell script
cs	Czech Shellový skript
de	German Shellskript
en	English Shell script
es	Spanish Script de shell
fa	Persian شل اسکریپت
fi	Finnish Shell-skripti
fr	French Script shell
gl	Galician Shell script
ja	Japanese シェルスクリプト
ko	Korean 셸 스크립트
nl	Dutch Shellscript
no	Norwegian Skallskript
pt	Portuguese Shell script
ru	Russian Сценарий командной строки
tr	Turkish Kabuk programlama
vi	Vietnamese Câu lệnh shell
zh	Chinese 外壳脚本

Best Rank

Catalan: #125126 03.2025

Global: #38156 06.2008

Best Rank

Catalan: #5245 05.2024

Global: #4582 11.2002

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