Touch (command)

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Touch (command)

Quality:

Touch - standard Unix program used to change a file's access and modification timestamps. Article "Touch (command)" in English Wikipedia has 29.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 12 references and 4 sections.

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 "Touch (command)", its content was written by 62 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 282 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 229 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1985 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #19583 in January 2004
  • Global: #34017 in December 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #75405 in March 2012
  • Global: #95575 in January 2015

There are 21 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
Touch (command)
29.3422
2Arabic (ar)
توش (أمر)
19.6983
3Ukrainian (uk)
Touch
14.9724
4Chinese (zh)
Touch (Unix)
12.1129
5German (de)
Touch (Unix)
10.7785
6Hungarian (hu)
Touch (Unix)
9.1419
7Italian (it)
Touch (Unix)
8.5746
8Korean (ko)
Touch (유닉스)
8.0208
9Japanese (ja)
Touch (UNIX)
6.4498
10Russian (ru)
Touch
5.8558
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Touch (command)" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Touch (command)
839 830
2Russian (ru)
Touch
221 560
3French (fr)
Touch (Unix)
90 749
4Spanish (es)
Touch (Unix)
81 200
5German (de)
Touch (Unix)
72 740
6Polish (pl)
Touch (Unix)
57 198
7Italian (it)
Touch (Unix)
43 467
8Japanese (ja)
Touch (UNIX)
43 406
9Korean (ko)
Touch (유닉스)
19 777
10Portuguese (pt)
Touch (informática)
14 041
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Touch (command)" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Touch (command)
1 625
2Russian (ru)
Touch
269
3French (fr)
Touch (Unix)
88
4Chinese (zh)
Touch (Unix)
80
5Japanese (ja)
Touch (UNIX)
73
6German (de)
Touch (Unix)
70
7Italian (it)
Touch (Unix)
36
8Spanish (es)
Touch (Unix)
23
9Czech (cs)
Touch (Unix)
22
10Polish (pl)
Touch (Unix)
20
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Touch (command)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Touch (command)
62
2German (de)
Touch (Unix)
42
3French (fr)
Touch (Unix)
32
4Italian (it)
Touch (Unix)
20
5Hungarian (hu)
Touch (Unix)
19
6Polish (pl)
Touch (Unix)
14
7Russian (ru)
Touch
14
8Czech (cs)
Touch (Unix)
11
9Spanish (es)
Touch (Unix)
9
10Japanese (ja)
Touch (UNIX)
9
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Touch (command)" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Hungarian (hu)
Touch (Unix)
1
2Turkish (tr)
Touch (komut)
1
3Arabic (ar)
توش (أمر)
0
4Belarusian (be)
Touch
0
5Czech (cs)
Touch (Unix)
0
6German (de)
Touch (Unix)
0
7English (en)
Touch (command)
0
8Spanish (es)
Touch (Unix)
0
9Persian (fa)
Touch
0
10French (fr)
Touch (Unix)
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Touch (command)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Touch (command)
229
2Russian (ru)
Touch
180
3French (fr)
Touch (Unix)
171
4Korean (ko)
Touch (유닉스)
145
5Polish (pl)
Touch (Unix)
131
6Italian (it)
Touch (Unix)
129
7Japanese (ja)
Touch (UNIX)
122
8Hungarian (hu)
Touch (Unix)
119
9Czech (cs)
Touch (Unix)
116
10Chinese (zh)
Touch (Unix)
110
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Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
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Global:
Popularity in June 2025:
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Popularity in all years:
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Authors in June 2025:
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Registered authors in all years:
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Citations:
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
توش (أمر)
beBelarusian
Touch
csCzech
Touch (Unix)
deGerman
Touch (Unix)
enEnglish
Touch (command)
esSpanish
Touch (Unix)
faPersian
Touch
frFrench
Touch (Unix)
heHebrew
Touch (יוניקס)
huHungarian
Touch (Unix)
itItalian
Touch (Unix)
jaJapanese
Touch (UNIX)
kaGeorgian
Touch (იუნიქსი)
koKorean
Touch (유닉스)
plPolish
Touch (Unix)
ptPortuguese
Touch (informática)
roRomanian
Touch (Unix)
ruRussian
Touch
trTurkish
Touch (komut)
ukUkrainian
Touch
zhChinese
Touch (Unix)

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#75405
03.2012
Global:
#95575
01.2015

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#19583
01.2004
Global:
#34017
12.2009

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Touch from Wikipedia articles about List of UNIX commands, Touch, GNU Core Utilities, Unix and Who. Whereas reading the article about Touch people most often go to Wikipedia articles on List of UNIX commands, Unix, UnxUtils, Symbolic link and Touch.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

ru: Touch
fa: Touch
uk: Touch
be: Touch

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