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 47.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). 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 273 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 513 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 63 times in English Wikipedia and cited 209 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #11819 in July 2012
• Global: #27687 in July 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #30185 in October 2014
• Global: #49449 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, 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) Shebang (Unix)		47.8638
2	German (de) Shebang		43.1277
3	Hungarian (hu) Shebang (UNIX)		29.9278
4	Russian (ru) Шебанг (Unix)		29.1514
5	Korean (ko) 셔뱅		27.6032
6	Portuguese (pt) Shebang		23.993
7	Uzbek (uz) Shebang (Unix)		23.5264
8	Chinese (zh) Shebang		23.3159
9	Norwegian (no) Shebang (Unix)		22.5721
10	Finnish (fi) Shebang (Unix)		22.2719

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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)		4 003 440
2	German (de) Shebang		487 522
3	French (fr) Shebang		244 249
4	Russian (ru) Шебанг (Unix)		204 581
5	Japanese (ja) シバン (Unix)		203 749
6	Chinese (zh) Shebang		104 693
7	Spanish (es) Shebang		95 119
8	Polish (pl) Shebang		63 516
9	Italian (it) Shabang		55 158
10	Portuguese (pt) Shebang		50 049

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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 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Shebang (Unix)		18 879
2	German (de) Shebang		1 064
3	Russian (ru) Шебанг (Unix)		1 013
4	French (fr) Shebang		640
5	Japanese (ja) シバン (Unix)		536
6	Chinese (zh) Shebang		499
7	Spanish (es) Shebang		259
8	Italian (it) Shabang		243
9	Polish (pl) Shebang		204
10	Portuguese (pt) Shebang		158

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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)		273
2	German (de) Shebang		88
3	French (fr) Shebang		42
4	Italian (it) Shabang		27
5	Polish (pl) Shebang		16
6	Japanese (ja) シバン (Unix)		13
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 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Shebang		1
2	Catalan (ca) Shebang		0
3	Czech (cs) Shebang (Unix)		0
4	English (en) Shebang (Unix)		0
5	Spanish (es) Shebang		0
6	Finnish (fi) Shebang (Unix)		0
7	French (fr) Shebang		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)		63
2	French (fr) Shebang		22
3	Japanese (ja) シバン (Unix)		22
4	German (de) Shebang		20
5	Spanish (es) Shebang		11
6	Italian (it) Shabang		11
7	Czech (cs) Shebang (Unix)		9
8	Russian (ru) Шебанг (Unix)		9
9	Chinese (zh) Shebang		9
10	Korean (ko) 셔뱅		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: #30185 10.2014

Global: #49449 10.2014

Best Rank

English: #11819 07.2012

Global: #27687 07.2004

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