Bash

Quality:

GNU Bash - GNU Project implementation of the standard Unix shell. This software is the 87^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of software and the 53^rd most popular software in Croatian Wikipedia and the 29^th most popular programming language in Croatian Wikipedia. Article “Bash” in Croatian Wikipedia has 4.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

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

Achievements in all the time:

Croatian Wikipedia:

The 53^rd most popular in software in Croatian Wikipedia.

The 29^th most popular in programming languages in Croatian Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 87^th most popular in software.

The 30^th most popular in programming languages.

Since the creation of article “Bash”, its content was written by 22 registered users of Croatian Wikipedia and edited by 1909 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

GNU Bash is on the 53^rd place in local ranking of software in Croatian Wikipedia and on the 87^th place in global ranking of software in all the time.

GNU Bash is on the 29^th place in local ranking of programming languages in Croatian Wikipedia and on the 30^th place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 6 times in Croatian Wikipedia and cited 4334 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Croatian): #1210 in July 2007
• Global: #321 in April 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Croatian): #15131 in May 2009
• Global: #4693 in September 2014

There are 41 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) Bash (Unix shell)		75.3983
2	Hungarian (hu) Bash		46.7106
3	Catalan (ca) Bash		41.7648
4	Chinese (zh) Bash		41.6786
5	Russian (ru) Bash		39.349
6	Spanish (es) Bash		39.2344
7	German (de) Bash (Shell)		37.0786
8	Romanian (ro) Bash		36.163
9	Norwegian (no) Bash		35.797
10	Turkish (tr) Bash		35.6374

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Bash (Unix shell)		6 412 079
2	Russian (ru) Bash		1 403 869
3	Spanish (es) Bash		936 861
4	Japanese (ja) Bash		725 988
5	German (de) Bash (Shell)		714 610
6	Polish (pl) Bash		558 420
7	French (fr) Bourne-Again shell		487 866
8	Italian (it) Bash		366 283
9	Chinese (zh) Bash		306 235
10	Portuguese (pt) Bash		274 236

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) Bash (Unix shell)		21 061
2	Russian (ru) Bash		2 591
3	German (de) Bash (Shell)		1 590
4	Japanese (ja) Bash		1 205
5	French (fr) Bourne-Again shell		1 130
6	Spanish (es) Bash		1 046
7	Chinese (zh) Bash		1 012
8	Polish (pl) Bash		630
9	Italian (it) Bash		516
10	Portuguese (pt) Bash		437

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Bash (Unix shell)		545
2	French (fr) Bourne-Again shell		163
3	Russian (ru) Bash		102
4	Italian (it) Bash		99
5	German (de) Bash (Shell)		97
6	Spanish (es) Bash		89
7	Polish (pl) Bash		81
8	Japanese (ja) Bash		63
9	Dutch (nl) Bash		56
10	Portuguese (pt) Bash		44

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	English (en) Bash (Unix shell)		8
2	German (de) Bash (Shell)		2
3	Korean (ko) 배시 (유닉스 셸)		2
4	Persian (fa) پوسته Bash		1
5	Hungarian (hu) Bash		1
6	Japanese (ja) Bash		1
7	Norwegian (no) Bash		1
8	Arabic (ar) باش (يونكس)		0
9	Azerbaijani (az) Bash		0
10	Belarusian (be) Bash		0

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

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