Bash (Unix shell)

Quality:

GNU Bash - GNU Project implementation of the standard Unix shell. This software is the 92^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of software and the 92^nd most popular software in English Wikipedia and the 31^st most popular programming language in English Wikipedia. Article "Bash (Unix shell)" in English Wikipedia has 73.7 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 112 references and 19 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

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 92^nd most popular in software in English Wikipedia.

The 31^st most popular in programming languages in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 92^nd most popular in software.

The 29^th most popular in programming languages.

In July 2024 the article "Bash (Unix shell)" was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 8 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Bash (Unix shell)", its content was written by 515 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1834 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

GNU Bash is on the 92^nd place in local ranking of software in English Wikipedia and on the 92^nd place in global ranking of software in all the time.

GNU Bash is on the 31^st place in local ranking of programming languages in English Wikipedia and on the 29^th place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 507 times in English Wikipedia and cited 4024 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #810 in February 2002
• Global: #321 in April 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #3822 in September 2014
• Global: #4705 in September 2014

There are 40 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 August 1, 2024 (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)		73.6741
2	Hungarian (hu) Bash		46.7373
3	Catalan (ca) Bash		41.8658
4	Chinese (zh) Bash		41.8028
5	Russian (ru) Bash		39.4268
6	Spanish (es) Bash		39.3035
7	German (de) Bash (Shell)		37.4061
8	Romanian (ro) Bash		36.1671
9	Turkish (tr) Bash		33.4315
10	Vietnamese (vi) Bash		33.2306

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Bash (Unix shell)		6 134 059
2	Russian (ru) Bash		1 355 233
3	Spanish (es) Bash		919 225
4	Japanese (ja) Bash		710 631
5	German (de) Bash (Shell)		689 818
6	Polish (pl) Bash		548 511
7	French (fr) Bourne-Again shell		474 873
8	Italian (it) Bash		358 321
9	Chinese (zh) Bash		293 797
10	Portuguese (pt) Bash		268 422

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)		25 449
2	Russian (ru) Bash		4 016
3	German (de) Bash (Shell)		2 544
4	Japanese (ja) Bash		1 856
5	Spanish (es) Bash		1 809
6	French (fr) Bourne-Again shell		1 036
7	Chinese (zh) Bash		1 023
8	Polish (pl) Bash		812
9	Italian (it) Bash		614
10	Portuguese (pt) Bash		586

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)		515
2	French (fr) Bourne-Again shell		160
3	Russian (ru) Bash		102
4	Italian (it) Bash		99
5	German (de) Bash (Shell)		92
6	Spanish (es) Bash		85
7	Polish (pl) Bash		81
8	Japanese (ja) Bash		60
9	Dutch (nl) Bash		56
10	Portuguese (pt) Bash		42

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)		3
2	Japanese (ja) Bash		1
3	Polish (pl) Bash		1
4	Portuguese (pt) Bash		1
5	Slovak (sk) Bash		1
6	Ukrainian (uk) Bash		1
7	Arabic (ar) باش (يونكس)		0
8	Azerbaijani (az) Bash		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Bash		0
10	Catalan (ca) Bash		0

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

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