Shebang (Unix)

Shebang - the symbol "#!", used in computing at the beginning of a shell script to specify an interpreter. Article “Shebang (Unix)” in English Wikipedia has 47.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 36 references and 17 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 “Shebang (Unix)”, its content was written by 292 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 543 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 62 times in English Wikipedia and cited 196 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #11852 in July 2012
• Global: #27730 in July 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #29295 in October 2014
• Global: #49611 in October 2014

There are 18 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) Shebang (Unix)		47.6172
2	Ukrainian (uk) Шебанг (Unix)		47.4732
3	German (de) Shebang		42.2519
4	Hungarian (hu) Shebang (UNIX)		29.8943
5	Russian (ru) Шебанг (Unix)		29.2151
6	Korean (ko) 셔뱅		27.6491
7	Portuguese (pt) Shebang		23.9084
8	Uzbek (uz) Shebang (Unix)		23.527
9	Chinese (zh) Shebang		23.2823
10	Norwegian (no) Shebang (Unix)		22.5525

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Shebang (Unix)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Shebang (Unix)		4 244 130
2	German (de) Shebang		501 548
3	French (fr) Shebang		252 622
4	Russian (ru) Шебанг (Unix)		215 471
5	Japanese (ja) シバン (Unix)		211 361
6	Chinese (zh) Shebang		109 334
7	Spanish (es) Shebang		96 876
8	Polish (pl) Shebang		65 860
9	Italian (it) Shabang		57 439
10	Portuguese (pt) Shebang		51 007

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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 "Shebang (Unix)" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Shebang (Unix)		12 796
2	German (de) Shebang		866
3	French (fr) Shebang		567
4	Russian (ru) Шебанг (Unix)		494
5	Japanese (ja) シバン (Unix)		477
6	Chinese (zh) Shebang		279
7	Italian (it) Shabang		163
8	Polish (pl) Shebang		92
9	Portuguese (pt) Shebang		82
10	Spanish (es) Shebang		65

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Shebang (Unix)		292
2	German (de) Shebang		89
3	French (fr) Shebang		42
4	Italian (it) Shabang		28
5	Japanese (ja) シバン (Unix)		18
6	Polish (pl) Shebang		18
7	Chinese (zh) Shebang		11
8	Spanish (es) Shebang		10
9	Russian (ru) Шебанг (Unix)		8
10	Catalan (ca) Shebang		6

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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 "Shebang (Unix)" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	French (fr) Shebang		2
2	German (de) Shebang		1
3	Catalan (ca) Shebang		0
4	Czech (cs) Shebang (Unix)		0
5	English (en) Shebang (Unix)		0
6	Spanish (es) Shebang		0
7	Finnish (fi) Shebang (Unix)		0
8	Hungarian (hu) Shebang (UNIX)		0
9	Italian (it) Shabang		0
10	Japanese (ja) シバン (Unix)		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 "Shebang (Unix)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Shebang (Unix)		62
2	German (de) Shebang		17
3	French (fr) Shebang		17
4	Japanese (ja) シバン (Unix)		17
5	Korean (ko) 셔뱅		13
6	Spanish (es) Shebang		12
7	Czech (cs) Shebang (Unix)		9
8	Russian (ru) Шебанг (Unix)		9
9	Chinese (zh) Shebang		9
10	Italian (it) Shabang		8

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#	Language	Value
ca	Catalan Shebang
cs	Czech Shebang (Unix)
de	German Shebang
en	English Shebang (Unix)
es	Spanish Shebang
fi	Finnish Shebang (Unix)
fr	French Shebang
hu	Hungarian Shebang (UNIX)
it	Italian Shabang
ja	Japanese シバン (Unix)
ko	Korean 셔뱅
no	Norwegian Shebang (Unix)
pl	Polish Shebang
pt	Portuguese Shebang
ru	Russian Шебанг (Unix)
uk	Ukrainian Шебанг (Unix)
uz	Uzbek Shebang (Unix)
zh	Chinese Shebang

Best Rank

English: #29295 10.2014

Global: #49611 10.2014

Best Rank

English: #11852 07.2012

Global: #27730 07.2004

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