Shell script

Quality:

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 68^th most popular software in Galician Wikipedia and the 50^th most popular programming language in Galician Wikipedia. Article "Shell script" in Galician Wikipedia has 0.1 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024).

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

Achievements in all the time:

Galician Wikipedia:

The 68^th most popular in software in Galician Wikipedia.

The 50^th most popular in programming languages in Galician Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 191^st most popular in software.

The 65^th most popular in programming languages.

Since the creation of article "Shell script", its content was written by 8 registered users of Galician Wikipedia and edited by 410 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Shell script is on the 68^th place in local ranking of software in Galician Wikipedia and on the 191^st place in global ranking of software in all the time.

Shell script is on the 50^th place in local ranking of programming languages in Galician Wikipedia and on the 65^th place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 2 times in Galician Wikipedia and cited 1357 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Galician): #967 in November 2011
• Global: #4565 in November 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Galician): #3933 in October 2022
• 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

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

#	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

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	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

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

#	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

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

#	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

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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