Korn shell

KornShell - type of Unix shell. This software is the 517^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of software and the 342^nd most popular software in French Wikipedia and the 100^th most popular programming language in French Wikipedia. Article “Korn shell” in French Wikipedia has 15.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 4 references and 5 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Korn shell”, its content was written by 55 registered users of French Wikipedia and edited by 493 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

KornShell is on the 342^nd place in local ranking of software in French Wikipedia and on the 517^th place in global ranking of software in all the time.

KornShell is on the 100^th place in local ranking of programming languages in French Wikipedia and on the 136^th place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 45 times in French Wikipedia and cited 955 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (French): #593 in January 2003
• Global: #5589 in January 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (French): #73218 in February 2008
• Global: #101770 in September 2014

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 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) KornShell		52.2243
2	Chinese (zh) KornShell		41.0514
3	German (de) Kornshell		36.2297
4	Korean (ko) 콘셸		29.1477
5	Finnish (fi) Korn shell		24.3565
6	Greek (el) Ksh		24.0533
7	Russian (ru) Korn shell		23.6159
8	Norwegian (no) KornShell		22.3709
9	Azerbaijani (az) KornShell		19.3059
10	Japanese (ja) KornShell		19.0863

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) KornShell		1 108 106
2	Japanese (ja) KornShell		162 274
3	German (de) Kornshell		122 098
4	French (fr) Korn shell		119 030
5	Spanish (es) Korn shell		107 053
6	Russian (ru) Korn shell		73 261
7	Polish (pl) Korn shell		48 334
8	Italian (it) Korn shell		39 930
9	Chinese (zh) KornShell		38 193
10	Czech (cs) Korn shell		9 923

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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 "Korn shell" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) KornShell		2 862
2	German (de) Kornshell		232
3	Chinese (zh) KornShell		216
4	French (fr) Korn shell		162
5	Japanese (ja) KornShell		139
6	Spanish (es) Korn shell		124
7	Russian (ru) Korn shell		113
8	Italian (it) Korn shell		82
9	Polish (pl) Korn shell		68
10	Korean (ko) 콘셸		21

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

Language versions of the article "Korn 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) KornShell		145
2	German (de) Kornshell		85
3	French (fr) Korn shell		55
4	Italian (it) Korn shell		42
5	Spanish (es) Korn shell		24
6	Russian (ru) Korn shell		23
7	Japanese (ja) KornShell		16
8	Polish (pl) Korn shell		16
9	Czech (cs) Korn shell		11
10	Ukrainian (uk) Korn-shell		11

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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 "Korn shell" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) KornShell		3
2	German (de) Kornshell		1
3	Azerbaijani (az) KornShell		0
4	Catalan (ca) Korn shell		0
5	Czech (cs) Korn shell		0
6	Greek (el) Ksh		0
7	Spanish (es) Korn shell		0
8	Finnish (fi) Korn shell		0
9	French (fr) Korn shell		0
10	Hindi (hi) के शेल		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 "Korn shell" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Chinese (zh) KornShell		226
2	Norwegian (no) KornShell		156
3	English (en) KornShell		130
4	Russian (ru) Korn shell		99
5	Ukrainian (uk) Korn-shell		62
6	French (fr) Korn shell		45
7	German (de) Kornshell		36
8	Spanish (es) Korn shell		32
9	Korean (ko) 콘셸		31
10	Japanese (ja) KornShell		30

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#	Language	Value
az	Azerbaijani KornShell
ca	Catalan Korn shell
cs	Czech Korn shell
de	German Kornshell
el	Greek Ksh
en	English KornShell
es	Spanish Korn shell
fi	Finnish Korn shell
fr	French Korn shell
hi	Hindi के शेल
it	Italian Korn shell
ja	Japanese KornShell
ko	Korean 콘셸
nl	Dutch KornShell
no	Norwegian KornShell
pl	Polish Korn shell
ru	Russian Korn shell
uk	Ukrainian Korn-shell
zh	Chinese KornShell

Best Rank

French: #73218 02.2008

Global: #101770 09.2014

Best Rank

French: #593 01.2003

Global: #5589 01.2003

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