Bash (Unix shell)

Quality:

GNU Bash - GNU Project implementation of the standard Unix shell. This software is the 80^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of software and the 85^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 48.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 211 references and 89 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 26.07 points.

This article has the best quality in Korean Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 85^th most popular in software in English Wikipedia.

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

Global Wikipedia:

The 80^th most popular in software.

The 31^st most popular in programming languages.

In June 2026 the article “Bash (Unix shell)” was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 13 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Bash (Unix shell)”, its content was written by 585 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1972 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

GNU Bash is on the 85^th place in local ranking of software in English Wikipedia and on the 80^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 31^st place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 469 times in English Wikipedia and cited 4314 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #812 in February 2002
• Global: #324 in April 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #3851 in September 2014
• Global: #4925 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, 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	Korean (ko) 배시 (유닉스 셸)		74.8383
2	Russian (ru) Bash		53.9996
3	Portuguese (pt) Bash		53.1016
4	English (en) Bash (Unix shell)		48.4063
5	Hungarian (hu) Bash		46.6508
6	Catalan (ca) Bash		41.7875
7	Spanish (es) Bash		38.6159
8	Chinese (zh) Bash		38.2812
9	German (de) Bash (Shell)		36.5128
10	Romanian (ro) Bash		36.0615

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Bash (Unix shell)		6 731 789
2	Russian (ru) Bash		1 442 789
3	Spanish (es) Bash		958 791
4	German (de) Bash (Shell)		739 966
5	Japanese (ja) Bash		738 991
6	Polish (pl) Bash		566 107
7	French (fr) Bourne-Again shell		501 314
8	Italian (it) Bash		379 525
9	Chinese (zh) Bash		324 031
10	Portuguese (pt) Bash		285 905

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)		22 808
2	German (de) Bash (Shell)		1 667
3	Russian (ru) Bash		1 581
4	Japanese (ja) Bash		1 092
5	Spanish (es) Bash		1 020
6	French (fr) Bourne-Again shell		993
7	Chinese (zh) Bash		887
8	Polish (pl) Bash		543
9	Italian (it) Bash		456
10	Portuguese (pt) Bash		443

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)		585
2	French (fr) Bourne-Again shell		168
3	Russian (ru) Bash		104
4	Italian (it) Bash		100
5	German (de) Bash (Shell)		98
6	Spanish (es) Bash		89
7	Polish (pl) Bash		81
8	Japanese (ja) Bash		65
9	Dutch (nl) Bash		57
10	Portuguese (pt) Bash		46

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)		4
2	Arabic (ar) باش (يونكس)		1
3	Catalan (ca) Bash		1
4	German (de) Bash (Shell)		1
5	Basque (eu) Bash		1
6	Finnish (fi) Bash		1
7	Korean (ko) 배시 (유닉스 셸)		1
8	Portuguese (pt) Bash		1
9	Romanian (ro) Bash		1
10	Vietnamese (vi) Bash		1

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

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