Bash (Unix shell)

Quality:

GNU Bash - GNU Project implementation of the standard Unix shell. This software is the 87^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of software and the 90^th most popular software in English Wikipedia and the 30^th most popular programming language in English Wikipedia. Article "Bash (Unix shell)" in English Wikipedia has 75.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 137 references and 22 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that language version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 90^th most popular in software in English Wikipedia.

The 30^th most popular in programming languages in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 87^th most popular in software.

The 30^th most popular in programming languages.

In June 2025 the article "Bash (Unix shell)" was edited by 8 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 16 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Bash (Unix shell)", its content was written by 545 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1909 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

GNU Bash is on the 90^th place in local ranking of software in English Wikipedia and on the 87^th place in global ranking of software in all the time.

GNU Bash is on the 30^th place in local ranking of programming languages in English Wikipedia and on the 30^th place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 508 times in English Wikipedia and cited 4334 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #811 in February 2002
• Global: #321 in April 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #3823 in September 2014
• Global: #4693 in September 2014

There are 41 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, 2025 (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) Bash (Unix shell)		75.3983
2	Hungarian (hu) Bash		46.7106
3	Catalan (ca) Bash		41.7648
4	Chinese (zh) Bash		41.6786
5	Russian (ru) Bash		39.349
6	Spanish (es) Bash		39.2344
7	German (de) Bash (Shell)		37.0786
8	Romanian (ro) Bash		36.163
9	Norwegian (no) Bash		35.797
10	Turkish (tr) Bash		35.6374

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Bash (Unix shell)		6 412 079
2	Russian (ru) Bash		1 403 869
3	Spanish (es) Bash		936 861
4	Japanese (ja) Bash		725 988
5	German (de) Bash (Shell)		714 610
6	Polish (pl) Bash		558 420
7	French (fr) Bourne-Again shell		487 866
8	Italian (it) Bash		366 283
9	Chinese (zh) Bash		306 235
10	Portuguese (pt) Bash		274 236

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Bash (Unix shell)		21 061
2	Russian (ru) Bash		2 591
3	German (de) Bash (Shell)		1 590
4	Japanese (ja) Bash		1 205
5	French (fr) Bourne-Again shell		1 130
6	Spanish (es) Bash		1 046
7	Chinese (zh) Bash		1 012
8	Polish (pl) Bash		630
9	Italian (it) Bash		516
10	Portuguese (pt) Bash		437

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Bash (Unix shell)		545
2	French (fr) Bourne-Again shell		163
3	Russian (ru) Bash		102
4	Italian (it) Bash		99
5	German (de) Bash (Shell)		97
6	Spanish (es) Bash		89
7	Polish (pl) Bash		81
8	Japanese (ja) Bash		63
9	Dutch (nl) Bash		56
10	Portuguese (pt) Bash		44

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Bash (Unix shell)		8
2	German (de) Bash (Shell)		2
3	Korean (ko) 배시 (유닉스 셸)		2
4	Persian (fa) پوسته Bash		1
5	Hungarian (hu) Bash		1
6	Japanese (ja) Bash		1
7	Norwegian (no) Bash		1
8	Arabic (ar) باش (يونكس)		0
9	Azerbaijani (az) Bash		0
10	Belarusian (be) Bash		0

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

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