Shell script

Shell script - script written for the shell, or command line interpreter, of an operating system. This software is the 191^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of software and the 141^st most popular software in English Wikipedia and the 47^th most popular programming language in English Wikipedia. Article "Shell script" in English Wikipedia has 39.1 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 17 references and 16 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.

Since the creation of article "Shell script", its content was written by 215 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 410 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Shell script is on the 141^st place in local ranking of software in English Wikipedia and on the 191^st place in global ranking of software in all the time.

Shell script is on the 47^th place in local ranking of programming languages in English Wikipedia and on the 65^th place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 332 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1357 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1737 in November 2002
• Global: #4565 in November 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #24938 in July 2013
• Global: #38095 in June 2008

There are 19 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) Shell script		39.1126
2	German (de) Shellskript		35.011
3	Portuguese (pt) Shell script		27.7936
4	Vietnamese (vi) Câu lệnh shell		24.8698
5	Norwegian (no) Skallskript		18.1407
6	Korean (ko) 셸 스크립트		16.7491
7	Spanish (es) Script de shell		14.1971
8	Russian (ru) Сценарий командной строки		11.9507
9	Japanese (ja) シェルスクリプト		10.7506
10	Arabic (ar) شل سكربت		9.153

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Shell script" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Shell script		4 070 873
2	Portuguese (pt) Shell script		492 799
3	Japanese (ja) シェルスクリプト		390 986
4	Russian (ru) Сценарий командной строки		90 512
5	German (de) Shellskript		75 270
6	Chinese (zh) 外壳脚本		57 427
7	Korean (ko) 셸 스크립트		52 028
8	French (fr) Script shell		42 203
9	Arabic (ar) شل سكربت		38 073
10	Czech (cs) Shellový skript		37 317

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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 "Shell script" in July 2024

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Shell script		7 841
2	German (de) Shellskript		984
3	Japanese (ja) シェルスクリプト		932
4	Portuguese (pt) Shell script		574
5	Russian (ru) Сценарий командной строки		404
6	Chinese (zh) 外壳脚本		368
7	French (fr) Script shell		252
8	Spanish (es) Script de shell		242
9	Korean (ko) 셸 스크립트		202
10	Arabic (ar) شل سكربت		92

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Shell script		215
2	Portuguese (pt) Shell script		54
3	Japanese (ja) シェルスクリプト		22
4	Czech (cs) Shellový skript		18
5	German (de) Shellskript		14
6	Turkish (tr) Kabuk programlama		11
7	Dutch (nl) Shellscript		10
8	Arabic (ar) شل سكربت		8
9	Galician (gl) Shell script		8
10	Russian (ru) Сценарий командной строки		8

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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 "Shell script" with the highest AI in July 2024

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Catalan (ca) Shell script		1
2	Arabic (ar) شل سكربت		0
3	Czech (cs) Shellový skript		0
4	German (de) Shellskript		0
5	English (en) Shell script		0
6	Spanish (es) Script de shell		0
7	Persian (fa) شل اسکریپت		0
8	Finnish (fi) Shell-skripti		0
9	French (fr) Script shell		0
10	Galician (gl) Shell script		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 "Shell script" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Shell script		332
2	Turkish (tr) Kabuk programlama		257
3	Portuguese (pt) Shell script		229
4	Japanese (ja) シェルスクリプト		103
5	Korean (ko) 셸 스크립트		99
6	German (de) Shellskript		87
7	French (fr) Script shell		43
8	Chinese (zh) 外壳脚本		43
9	Czech (cs) Shellový skript		42
10	Arabic (ar) شل سكربت		30

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic شل سكربت
ca	Catalan Shell script
cs	Czech Shellový skript
de	German Shellskript
en	English Shell script
es	Spanish Script de shell
fa	Persian شل اسکریپت
fi	Finnish Shell-skripti
fr	French Script shell
gl	Galician Shell script
ja	Japanese シェルスクリプト
ko	Korean 셸 스크립트
nl	Dutch Shellscript
no	Norwegian Skallskript
pt	Portuguese Shell script
ru	Russian Сценарий командной строки
tr	Turkish Kabuk programlama
vi	Vietnamese Câu lệnh shell
zh	Chinese 外壳脚本

Best Rank

English: #24938 07.2013

Global: #38095 06.2008

Best Rank

English: #1737 11.2002

Global: #4565 11.2002

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