Bash

Quality:

GNU Bash - GNU Project implementation of the standard Unix shell. This software is the 80^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of software and the 121^st most popular software in Norwegian Wikipedia and the 45^th most popular programming language in Norwegian Wikipedia. Article “Bash” in Norwegian Wikipedia has 35.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 29 references and 6 sections.

This article has the best quality in Korean Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Achievements in all the time:

Norwegian Wikipedia:

The 121^st most popular in software in Norwegian Wikipedia.

The 45^th most popular in programming languages in Norwegian Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 80^th most popular in software.

The 31^st most popular in programming languages.

Since the creation of article “Bash”, its content was written by 7 registered users of Norwegian Wikipedia and edited by 1972 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

GNU Bash is on the 121^st place in local ranking of software in Norwegian Wikipedia and on the 80^th place in global ranking of software in all the time.

GNU Bash is on the 45^th place in local ranking of programming languages in Norwegian Wikipedia and on the 31^st place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 178 times in Norwegian Wikipedia and cited 4314 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Norwegian): #2485 in December 2024
• Global: #324 in April 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Norwegian): #2321 in November 2025
• Global: #4925 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, 2026 (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	Korean (ko) 배시 (유닉스 셸)		74.8383
2	Russian (ru) Bash		53.9996
3	Portuguese (pt) Bash		53.1016
4	English (en) Bash (Unix shell)		48.4063
5	Hungarian (hu) Bash		46.6508
6	Catalan (ca) Bash		41.7875
7	Spanish (es) Bash		38.6159
8	Chinese (zh) Bash		38.2812
9	German (de) Bash (Shell)		36.5128
10	Romanian (ro) Bash		36.0615

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Bash (Unix shell)		6 731 789
2	Russian (ru) Bash		1 442 789
3	Spanish (es) Bash		958 791
4	German (de) Bash (Shell)		739 966
5	Japanese (ja) Bash		738 991
6	Polish (pl) Bash		566 107
7	French (fr) Bourne-Again shell		501 314
8	Italian (it) Bash		379 525
9	Chinese (zh) Bash		324 031
10	Portuguese (pt) Bash		285 905

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)		22 808
2	German (de) Bash (Shell)		1 667
3	Russian (ru) Bash		1 581
4	Japanese (ja) Bash		1 092
5	Spanish (es) Bash		1 020
6	French (fr) Bourne-Again shell		993
7	Chinese (zh) Bash		887
8	Polish (pl) Bash		543
9	Italian (it) Bash		456
10	Portuguese (pt) Bash		443

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)		585
2	French (fr) Bourne-Again shell		168
3	Russian (ru) Bash		104
4	Italian (it) Bash		100
5	German (de) Bash (Shell)		98
6	Spanish (es) Bash		89
7	Polish (pl) Bash		81
8	Japanese (ja) Bash		65
9	Dutch (nl) Bash		57
10	Portuguese (pt) Bash		46

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)		4
2	Arabic (ar) باش (يونكس)		1
3	Catalan (ca) Bash		1
4	German (de) Bash (Shell)		1
5	Basque (eu) Bash		1
6	Finnish (fi) Bash		1
7	Korean (ko) 배시 (유닉스 셸)		1
8	Portuguese (pt) Bash		1
9	Romanian (ro) Bash		1
10	Vietnamese (vi) Bash		1

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

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