Shell script

Quality:

Shell script - script written for the shell, or command line interpreter, of an operating system. This software is the 201^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of software and the 60^th most popular software in Portuguese Wikipedia and the 22^nd most popular programming language in Portuguese Wikipedia. Article “Shell script” in Portuguese Wikipedia has 27.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 0 references and 19 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Portuguese Wikipedia:

The 60^th most popular in software in Portuguese Wikipedia.

The 22^nd most popular in programming languages in Portuguese Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 201^st most popular in software.

The 67^th most popular in programming languages.

Since the creation of article “Shell script”, its content was written by 56 registered users of Portuguese Wikipedia and edited by 454 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Shell script is on the 60^th place in local ranking of software in Portuguese Wikipedia and on the 201^st place in global ranking of software in all the time.

Shell script is on the 22^nd place in local ranking of programming languages in Portuguese Wikipedia and on the 67^th place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 236 times in Portuguese Wikipedia and cited 1636 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Portuguese): #593 in September 2005
• Global: #4582 in November 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Portuguese): #6727 in June 2008
• Global: #38156 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 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	English (en) Shell script		45.5848
2	Turkish (tr) Kabuk programlama		36.7503
3	German (de) Shellskript		35.3707
4	Korean (ko) 셸 스크립트		34.3433
5	Portuguese (pt) Shell script		27.7375
6	Vietnamese (vi) Câu lệnh shell		24.6576
7	Catalan (ca) Shell script		23.6673
8	Norwegian (no) Skallskript		17.9733
9	Spanish (es) Script de shell		13.7423
10	Russian (ru) Сценарий командной строки		11.9366

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Shell script		4 204 190
2	Portuguese (pt) Shell script		499 624
3	Japanese (ja) シェルスクリプト		406 005
4	Russian (ru) Сценарий командной строки		98 214
5	German (de) Shellskript		87 583
6	Chinese (zh) 外壳脚本		64 467
7	Korean (ko) 셸 스크립트		54 148
8	French (fr) Script shell		47 532
9	Arabic (ar) إخطاط واجهة الأوامر		39 293
10	Czech (cs) Shellový skript		38 612

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		3 607
2	Japanese (ja) シェルスクリプト		348
3	German (de) Shellskript		295
4	Chinese (zh) 外壳脚本		201
5	Portuguese (pt) Shell script		171
6	French (fr) Script shell		163
7	Russian (ru) Сценарий командной строки		154
8	Spanish (es) Script de shell		71
9	Turkish (tr) Kabuk programlama		46
10	Czech (cs) Shellový skript		40

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		232
2	Portuguese (pt) Shell script		56
3	Japanese (ja) シェルスクリプト		27
4	Czech (cs) Shellový skript		20
5	Turkish (tr) Kabuk programlama		16
6	German (de) Shellskript		14
7	Dutch (nl) Shellscript		12
8	Arabic (ar) إخطاط واجهة الأوامر		11
9	French (fr) Script shell		10
10	Galician (gl) Shell script		9

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) Shell script		4
2	Arabic (ar) إخطاط واجهة الأوامر		1
3	Catalan (ca) Shell script		0
4	Czech (cs) Shellový skript		0
5	German (de) Shellskript		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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