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 55^th most popular software in Russian Wikipedia and the 26^th most popular programming language in Russian Wikipedia. Article “Bash” in Russian Wikipedia has 54 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 64 references and 27 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:

Russian Wikipedia:

The 55^th most popular in software in Russian Wikipedia.

The 26^th most popular in programming languages in Russian 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 104 registered users of Russian Wikipedia and edited by 1972 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

GNU Bash is on the 55^th place in local ranking of software in Russian Wikipedia and on the 80^th place in global ranking of software in all the time.

GNU Bash is on the 26^th place in local ranking of programming languages in Russian Wikipedia and on the 31^st place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 396 times in Russian Wikipedia and cited 4314 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Russian): #671 in December 2004
• Global: #324 in April 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Russian): #3167 in January 2008
• 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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