Bourne shell

Bourne shell - command line interpreter for operating systems. This software is the 365^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of software and the 334^th most popular software in English Wikipedia and the 90^th most popular programming language in English Wikipedia. Article “Bourne shell” in English Wikipedia has 43.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 12 references and 15 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Bourne shell”, its content was written by 166 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 553 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Bourne shell is on the 334^th place in local ranking of software in English Wikipedia and on the 365^th place in global ranking of software in all the time.

Bourne shell is on the 90^th place in local ranking of programming languages in English Wikipedia and on the 103^rd place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 160 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1370 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1805 in September 2002
• Global: #3086 in April 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #58814 in October 2009
• Global: #70384 in July 2009

There are 26 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) Bourne shell		43.2051
2	Czech (cs) Bourne shell		34.5946
3	Finnish (fi) Bourne shell		28.9974
4	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Bourne Shell		27.731
5	Polish (pl) Powłoka Bourne’a		18.1768
6	Italian (it) Bourne shell		16.2657
7	Japanese (ja) Bourne Shell		15.0798
8	Greek (el) Κέλυφος Bourne		12.7359
9	French (fr) Bourne shell		10.7901
10	Korean (ko) 본 셸		10.0679

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Bourne shell" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Bourne shell		1 809 774
2	Russian (ru) Bourne shell		220 098
3	Japanese (ja) Bourne Shell		218 358
4	Spanish (es) Bourne Shell		135 171
5	French (fr) Bourne shell		113 839
6	Chinese (zh) Bourne shell		51 347
7	Italian (it) Bourne shell		41 525
8	Portuguese (pt) Bourne shell		29 191
9	Korean (ko) 본 셸		26 406
10	Polish (pl) Powłoka Bourne’a		23 428

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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 "Bourne shell" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Bourne shell		4 508
2	Russian (ru) Bourne shell		424
3	Japanese (ja) Bourne Shell		340
4	Chinese (zh) Bourne shell		210
5	Spanish (es) Bourne Shell		202
6	French (fr) Bourne shell		183
7	Italian (it) Bourne shell		158
8	Polish (pl) Powłoka Bourne’a		94
9	Portuguese (pt) Bourne shell		57
10	Czech (cs) Bourne shell		51

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Bourne shell		166
2	French (fr) Bourne shell		42
3	Italian (it) Bourne shell		39
4	Russian (ru) Bourne shell		36
5	Polish (pl) Powłoka Bourne’a		32
6	Japanese (ja) Bourne Shell		28
7	Spanish (es) Bourne Shell		27
8	Norwegian (no) Bourne Shell		25
9	Esperanto (eo) Sh (ŝelo)		21
10	Czech (cs) Bourne shell		20

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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 "Bourne shell" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Azerbaijani (az) Bourne shell		0
2	Bulgarian (bg) Bourne shell		0
3	Catalan (ca) Bourne shell		0
4	Czech (cs) Bourne shell		0
5	Danish (da) Bourne shell		0
6	Greek (el) Κέλυφος Bourne		0
7	English (en) Bourne shell		0
8	Esperanto (eo) Sh (ŝelo)		0
9	Spanish (es) Bourne Shell		0
10	Persian (fa) Bourne shell		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 "Bourne shell" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Chinese (zh) Bourne shell		227
2	Norwegian (no) Bourne Shell		164
3	English (en) Bourne shell		160
4	Russian (ru) Bourne shell		116
5	Italian (it) Bourne shell		108
6	Ukrainian (uk) Оболонка Борна		71
7	Japanese (ja) Bourne Shell		67
8	French (fr) Bourne shell		57
9	Slovak (sk) Bourne shell		53
10	Spanish (es) Bourne Shell		49

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#	Language	Value
az	Azerbaijani Bourne shell
bg	Bulgarian Bourne shell
ca	Catalan Bourne shell
cs	Czech Bourne shell
da	Danish Bourne shell
el	Greek Κέλυφος Bourne
en	English Bourne shell
eo	Esperanto Sh (ŝelo)
es	Spanish Bourne Shell
fa	Persian Bourne shell
fi	Finnish Bourne shell
fr	French Bourne shell
he	Hebrew Bourne Shell
it	Italian Bourne shell
ja	Japanese Bourne Shell
ko	Korean 본 셸
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Bourne Shell
no	Norwegian Bourne Shell
pl	Polish Powłoka Bourne’a
pt	Portuguese Bourne shell
ru	Russian Bourne shell
sk	Slovak Bourne shell
sv	Swedish Bourne shell
th	Thai บอร์นเชลล์
uk	Ukrainian Оболонка Борна
zh	Chinese Bourne shell

Best Rank

English: #58814 10.2009

Global: #70384 07.2009

Best Rank

English: #1805 09.2002

Global: #3086 04.2002

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